It's not about what it is today but what it can be. I agree that there are a bunch of problems, but the future does look bright.
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yes, focused on Lemmy for now, its the best alternative
it will get updated and developed overtime, even if the devs went full political someone would just fork the project and we would still federate anyways, we have nothing to lose if we commit
Not a mod so you might not care about my opinion but...
I don't hate lemmy and hope it will continue to improve but at the same time, I still feel the UI is a bit minimal and lacking on a lot of features right now (TBF probably some of it is me getting used to it still). Some of this works in its favor tho.. like if I created a new account on reddit, I'd have to deal with all the karma bs again before I could even post to most subs. Here, this is my first post on this instance, and no problems AFAICT... which is really fucking awesome IMO. Other things, like how to show all communities sorted by # of subscribers or how I search for a specific phrase in a specific community (like "rootless docker" + "qbittorrent" in c/Piracy for instance), I am still a bit unclear if there is even a way to do that.
I don't see anything overtaking lemmy immediately. kbin is the next closest one I can think of that is open-source + federated and not controlled by a company and I think it is even less smooth than lemmy right now. There's mastodon but IMO that is more twitter alternative than reddit alternative.
But I guess if something came along that checked all the right boxes (foss, federated, markdown, long-form comments, more features, etc) then I would at least be open to considering it.
There's plenty of apps now and if you want a web app have you tried wefwef?
Sorry, should have clarified... I meant on desktop site via browser.
It's supposed to support desktop too but I haven't tried. May still look more like a mobile app though. I'm sure someone will make a desktop focused one as well. I've already seen a lot of user scripts.
That's cool and I genuinely wish them luck with it, as it will probably help lemmy adoption... but for me, I'm pretty partial to staying in the browser. Have a shit load of addons I like, including userscripts. plus, I run librewolf with a firejail container and I'm too lazy to write a new profile for whatever app just for one site lol. Still I hope after the infra issues get some love that the site UI won't end up lagging too far behind the apps
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The apps will dictate where people go. It's only natural
Looking at other fedi apps like Mastodon, accessibility and UI/UX will soon follow. Which is promising.
But yes, it's the early days of Lemmy and maybe even the fediverse. So we'll see what the future brings ;)
If I'm being honest, I can see myself switching pretty quickly. I'm still pretty new to all this Fediverse stuff and changes happen all the time.
The main thing that irks me about Lemmy right now is the UI and the latency. I've used Jerboa, and now I'm using Liftoff and I'm really not a fan of the UI. I was a Boost for Reddit user, so if Boost was somehow reworked for Lemmy, I'd be more than happy to use it (I'm not trying to demand this, just saying that's what I'd like to see in apps).
The other issue is latency. The dbzer0 instance is already pretty damn slow for me, but even lemmy.world takes so long for loading comments and posting is the most annoying.