I made the mistake of checking Reddit (using my last few days of Apollo) and came across a complaint about Lemmy that flabbergasted me
I made the mistake of checking Reddit (using my last few days of Apollo) and came across a complaint about Lemmy that flabbergasted me
Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
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People saying these things are the summer children of the internet. They are innocently naive and simply don't understand what they saying.
Or, they perfectly know what they're doing and are trying to divert people from alternatives. Hanlon's razor does not always apply, stupid can be at either side of the stick/carrot.
In all seriousness, I agree that is quite likely the case.
Exactly, they should search how Reddit’s original frontpage looked like. I have a feeling none of the people saying that even use websites, just apps
Reddit is full of people who call it an app in conversation.
I thought they were talking about the reddit app but no, they are talking about the site itself as an app because they found it on the app store like they found tiktok
This is not incorrect. The site itself is a web app. It has programmatic functionality beyond what you would find on a static web site.
Yeah, but these people I'm talking about weren't using the technical but the colloquial definition. They mean a mobile app, which was clear within context, saying things like how it replaced their social media addiction to instagram since they found "this app".
Believe me, people complaining about the lack of fancy interfaces on their "apps" aren't using the technical term differentiating a we app from a static site.