Other than the random communist extremists, I like it, but I hope this place doesnt turn into the next Voat as I have a strong feeling it will.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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That's usually my fear with the fediverse. Whenever I step on mastodon.social, 2/3 of the front page is ultra left memes and talking point. I mostly want to talk tech and sport, not read about culture wars. It's been hard to escape the crazy politics, and so far lemmy.world seems to have a lot of communities focused on other topics which is very welcome
Voat people will have their own instances and their own communities. Which you don't have to participate in.
That doesnt prevent them people from making alt accounts. On reddit I had like 6, with the multiple instances here I imagine thats way more common.
So? What prevented them from making alt accounts on reddit and other corporate media?
Moderation, right?
They didn't? I said that in my comment I had 6 accounts. With the federated instances its way more likely for people to have multiple accounts. I already have 2 and I have been here 2 days.
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I feel like this can be a really great replacement, but people will need to stick with it and watch it grow. Right now there is not enough content to keep people engaged. It's mainly just questions confusion. I am really digging the format simplicity of things!
We need to all post the content we want to see.
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica
I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it's been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It's like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It's been great, like the old days.
back in the day, normal forum software was considered "too hard"
signing up for an account on another site at all was "too much"
now signing up on a federated system is "too confusing"
tomorrow it will be running your own edge node will be "too intense"
they will do it anyway. it will be baked in, these solutions aren't just good for individuals, they are good for all users and make the internet better.
Standards>Sites.
I really don't understand, how is it difficult? You just type a username and pick a password...
there were multiple reasons we called them walled gardens. Users of AOL and CompuServe systems were very unaccustomed to having to create more accounts initially. It was amusing and sometimes frustrating to watch that userbase join the rest of the internet.
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It took sometime getting used to, but I am really enjoying this and just waiting to see how many people will stay here.
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frontend is bootstrap as fuck lol, but it does the job
The interface on jerboa is good. Basically legally distinct reddit. The thing is miss most is the content. None of the subs I like are here unfortunately.
I like it alot. I used RIF and it's very similar, plus how I interacted with reddit is kinda how lemmy is set up anyway. Small community, simple mostly text based view, sort by new.
The only bothersome bugs I've come across so far are: upvoting/commenting within inbox should be accessible with out click and hold, and the upvote itself is very laggy in the inbox as well. And posting a picture taken with phone gets turned sideways for some reason. Some one smarter than me will figure it out I'm sure.
Do you use mobile? Iβm on mobile and I just need to click for upvoting from inbox
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The registration process for an account is annoying: Having to look into email and having to explain how you are not a bot ... I guess? Also I can not imagine this scale well, if every registration request is checked by a human. Is there no better solution?
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I dont really like UI, its one of the things that will make me go back to Reddit
That's interesting, because I always used the old.reddit interface and hated the new one. Lemmy reminds me of old.reddit so I'm very happy with it.
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I like the simple, 'clean' looking format. I wouldn't say no to a dark mode option but otherwise I think it's ideal. It's restful because it's not too visually busy.
Edit: Found the dark mode option, yay!
I'm wishing it had a bit more separation actually, I'd love some lines in between comments or a radius around responses and such. Wondering if there's a way to customize this...
A collection of tools to navigate the fediverse in general would be nice too A way to discover other instances, see which instances are communicating with each other, that sort of thing. But yeah being able to filter out specific instances would be great there's a lemmynsfw instance that I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't want to see that kind of content.
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The app I'm using is pretty nice and reminds me of Relay.
But it's clear that most people will not be able to adapt to this without an actual sort of marketing push or hype around it, and with a vast dumbing down of the UX. Right now, explaining any of this to a regular person is going to make them think of crypto or something. That's a negative.
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I'm not used to the light mode, haha. I hope there's a dark version soon. But overall, it seems like a nice site so far. Edit: Found it, lol. So now it's easier on the eyes!
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The feature I want the most is for posts to auto-hide if I have upvoted/downvoted.