i do hope its here to stay, having to constantly switch platforms is a pain in the ass
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Is it me or is it kind of sad that we seem to enter an era of non-descriptive platform names?
Like, what is a Mastodon? Twitter was a cool name. Tweets on Twitter, that just sounded right. It's definitely not the name that caused the platforms downfall... Facebook, MySpace, Reddit, Snpachat, Tumblr, Twitter, Youtube - I like creative but descriptive names for platforms. Now we have Tiktok, Mastodon, Lemmy and stuff like that. Meh.
I mean, the fundamental platform is the fediverse, so there's that.
It's still early but I wouldn't expect the community to suddenly move to something new/better in the very near future. People here are still getting used to Lemmy/Fediverse.
Personally I'm happy with how things are progressing but you're right, stuff like UI/UX needs more fine tuning.. I'd expect it to get better as things go on. Also keep in mind since everything is federated here you could technically still participate via any other software that is also federated to Lemmy (signing up to a Kbin instance would be the closest at the moment).
Yes, im also not a fan of the site. I never heard of it before and trying to figure out how this site works is kind of a hassle. Im committed to learn how to sail on this pirate ship at least, but if we happen to find a better option ill probably follow the captain and the crew
I'm not a fan of it. I have three separate accounts on lemmy servers. I don't like the separation of different servers that are happening and I feel like it's all a big mess. I know it can improve but so far I'm not impressed. I also agree with others that it is very slow in terms of performance.
What...why? You only need one account. You have the ability to join, read, and post on any other federated "magazine". The only caveat is if a site decides to break their ties like beehaw.org did from Lemmy.world until the latter got their bot situation/login guardrails in place.
The easiest way IMO is to just subscribe to other communities(make sure you search 'all' communities instead of 'local'. )
If you're using a web browser(mobile or desktop) if you're looking for a specific community you can just append it to the end of your home url if the above solution isn't working for whatever reason but I wouldn't expect anyone would need to manually type out these urls.
Example:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/(community)@[instance] - this is not a working site just a reference
so the following links all end up on the same technology community on beehaw.org:
open me
https://beehaw.org/c/technology
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
The only confusing thing that I think may get people is if they create accounts on both Kevin and Lemmy and start getting confused by magazine vs collection(essentially subreddits or /r/ from reddit)
Also maybe, why does data such as upvotes, user's subscribed, upvotes/boosts look different on(for instance):
vs
It's the same posts and the same comments, you aren't missing out on anything . However the upvotes, views, and subscribers are all coming from lemmy.world specifically to https://beehaw.org/c/technology
You aren't seeing beehaw's upvotes and number of subscriber, but just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. This is why I'd urge for people to find one instance to call home. If you make accounts on multiple instances it's just going to cause confusion for no good reason.
I think there have been enough threads created on this but I hope this helps you out.
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I'm not committed to a fuck if something better come up i will move my shit to there that's it i am not a fandead of anything.
Looking at other fedi apps like Mastodon, accessibility and UI/UX will soon follow. Which is promising.
But yes, it's the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse. So we'll see what the future brings ;)
I'd move. I don't like how lemmy is setup.
then set up your own instance
I'd move to something else. This place is ugly to the eyes imo. I prefer the mesage board style over this.