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How many users here do you think are going to get bored and end up back on Reddit as soon as the blackout ends? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by nodsocket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don't mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I'm curious about people's outlook on this situation.

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[–] sibe@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

Lemmy

Posts are randomly added realtime when scrolling the main page making it unbearable
Subscribed/trending community list is a weird unaligned logo+text instead of a normal scrollable list

Kbin

How the fuck do you navigate to your subscribed "magazines"? The magazines tab just shows you list of everything and going under your subscriptions shows posts from every magazine I am subscribed to instead of letting me click on the specific magazine

"Fediverse"

Content propagation from other instances is slow(?) I want to subscribe to cs@kbin.social but beehaw still can't find it - maybe I don't understand it well enough and it's just a temporary issue

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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, of 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.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

your fediverse problem is because kbin.social had to temporarily defederate because its hardware couldn't keep up with demand

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

If it's so bad then why are you still here?