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This is a marketing issue.
Lol fediverse has marketing issue. So far it's basically harder to use less functional versions of other products with larger base. Seems like "protecting you data" isn't quite enough to compete with the additive crack corporate stuff puts out
Lemmy is so much more usable than Reddit without old.Reddit.com
I hate the app and web ui with a burning passions. It’s SO spammy!
Same, but I've also seen a bunch of people both on Reddit and Bluesky say they don't like Lemmy because the interface feels dated, "like Reddit 10 years ago."
To each their own I guess. But maybe there should be an instance that sets their default theme to something that feels more modern so those who want a simpler, less usable, experience can easily have that too.
And yeah, they'd probably become the new instance everyone complains about for being too "normie" but if we actually want the fediverse to catch on and take down corporate-owned social media, we are eventually gonna have to appeal to every part of those sites' user bases.
There is custom frontends, this one feels like old reddit in function, but it is much better looking.
check old.lemmy.world, https://photon.lemmy.world/ and https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world
Simpler?
The Reddit UI is a horrendous, busy mess! Lemmy with a black theme is so simple.
This is what I don’t understand at all; what way is the Lemmy UX bad? I go to lemmy.world, solve a captcha, enter my email, boom, I’m up. The UI is simple and already dark.
I honestly miss the new.reddit.com ui, the sh.reddit.com (current one) is so bad.