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/r/BuyFromEU: "Let's settle the Reddit alternative discussion: Lemmy doesn't need to “beat Reddit”, it needs to feel effortless" (old.reddit.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (13 children)

I actually think this post has a lot of solid points, many of which I have argued myself in the past. One thing was funny though. He says:

Today's Reddit is a phone product. The “just use the web UI” crowd is not representative of mainstream behavior.

and then several users in the comments were turned off by the Web UI of Lemmy.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It doesn't help that Lemmy's web UI is different depending on the instance. Personally I find dbzero's really bad. But they might think that's the Lemmy web UI and not realise it's different on each instance.

    Of course it's all subjective but I suspect the people complaining about the UI are likely users that have only known reddits "redesign", where as the older users will feel more at home on a default, unmodified Lemmy UI.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I disagree that having a variety of UIs is a bad thing. I wouldn't want every instance to look like dbzero! It also highlights that Lemmy is not a single platform, it's a federation of them. Heck even reddit has two UIs!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not saying it's bad to have a variety of UIs, but that there's no "lemmy UI" because it all depends on which instance you land on. So when someone says "the lemmy UI is awful" then we don't really know what they mean, because they might have gone to dbzero and thought that's what "lemmy" looks like.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I understand what you're saying, but what you want (conformity of UIs) is just not possible to enforce on a decentralized network.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'm not saying I want conformity of the UI's across instances. Maybe my original comment wasn't worded great, but I think ultimately it's a drawback of the decentralised nature of the threadiverse. People land on an instance and make an assumption that it's all like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    ... ironically i 99% use lemmy on my phone, lol.

    I have also had multiple people so far on lemmy just get livid about how i block out my sentences and paragraphs... you know, to make sense on the phone i am typing them on, to look nice.

    I've had people get legitimately angry that i formatted a comment for a phone, seemingly not even realizing that there are... what, at least 10 different mobile lemmy clients that are reasonably popular?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    They may not know the phone apps, and if they're on iOS there may not be any.

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