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Mostly everyone who will try kbin/lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Unreal how bad the UI/UX is considering the time they've had to copy Reddit.
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your fediverse problem is because kbin.social had to temporarily defederate because its hardware couldn't keep up with demand
Do note that a lot of this is created and maintained by people who don't have it as a full-time job and who likely have not experienced the surge of users that are currently moving from reddit. There are growing pains, there are going to be more, that's an unfortunate fact of the matter.
I think what will end up as a "make or break" factor for most is whether you believe in the underlying concept or not. Basically, do you believe in having a form of social media that is independent and federated, or do you prefer one that is centralized.
All this probably doesn't ease your frustrations but I think we all need to try to be patient at this point in time. Do come with constructive criticism, that is almost always beneficial, but be aware that it's gonna take time to get everything sorted.
Yeah its currently awful. You have to go into Settings -> Subscriptions. I've filed two bugs for this:
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/159
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/160
I agree that Lemmy needs massive improvements to compete with Reddit, but it's still an improvement over Mastodon.
For an open source hobbyist project, it's quite good. I just hope that programmers help out.
I think Mastodon isn't trying to solve the Reddit usecase though. As a Twitter replacement, Mastodon is great from a UI/UX perspective.
If it's so bad then why are you still here?
I'm sorry but this is the wrong attitude. His concerns are legitimate, even if somewhat poorly expressed, and they are just some among many. If Lemmy and the fediverse at large wants to grow and see wider adoption, there needs to be a way to tackle these issues, or be more transparent as to why they won't be tackled in the near future, or never.
For what it's worth, I am going to stick around despite the issues, because I see there's a drive to improve and so I expect Lemmy and other fediverse platforms to get better with time, while I expect reddit to keep getting more and more worse with time, and I'm done taking that abuse.
Bad take.
Someone can point out the issues that lead to their dissatisfaction without it being a case of "then you should leave".
I don't think that's the sort of attitude we should be adopting in this community, and certainly not at this stage in the game.