Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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It's okay, if the technology doesn't run them off, the inhabitants will.
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The problem is that mainstream media has less integrity now than it did 30 years ago. The national broadcaster in Australia for example has been infiltrated by right wing people (BTW I don't want to get rid of ABC, just wish it was better). To cut through the propaganda, people need to acquire the skills to find their own media sources. Unfortunately that also means getting technical ability with computers now. Best thing I can think of is helping less adept people to navigate the space. Otherwise we end up with a much weaker democracy. Listening to C-SPAN callers in 2022-2024 scared the hell out of me and made me think Trump was gonna get voted back in. People stuck in legacy media space are getting brainwashed. I wish it was easier to curate RSS feeds for non-technical friends and family.
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Im curious about what the issue with lemmy.world is? It's just the big instance I saw when I started, so I went with that and haven't really had any issues. Nothing is really keeping me here so just wondering what im missing
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Shut down as in someone shut down the website or people telling you that the idea is trash?
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Leftists were banned on Reddit long ago and federation and internet archtiecture and infrastructure is made by generally leftists and libertarian types. So yeah, lots of leftists and libertarian types are around these niche and relatively new (I started using the fediverse nearly 10 years ago lol). Surprise pikachu face when normal people stop using reddit and see leftists since they were shielded from them by corporations, but it shouldn't be that surprising honestly
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Drag has been misgendered (The he/him kind), harassed, and banned from communities on .world for using neopronouns. The admins don't care and do nothing.
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after using Thunder for a bit, this blocking clearly does not extend to users.
The people suggesting it know it doesnt do what you want. They are being disingenuous.
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"Tankie" is how first-world "leftist" describe third-world leftists.
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A lot of users here prefer a desktop environment that's only command line.
Apparently wanting even a GUI puts you in a minority on Lemmy.
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I mean, there's already apps that are good that were created by reddit app developers. E.g. Boost for Lemmy. The problem isn't the apps, it's the availability of content and people. The /r/orioles on reddit has 85,163 subscribers. 110 people on the page right now. /c/Baltimore_Orioles here has 150 subscribers and no posts in 4 months which was a bot posted game thread with 0 comments on it.
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Its so nice tho, all the alternative front ends are fire, I like all the ios apps, I prefer it to reddits garbage, they made it worse every update down to forcing answers to take up a tab in the last one
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I consider myself an idiot when it comes to this, but even I had zero issues. Went to Lemmy, joined .zip because it sounded cool and started browsing All to discover other communities (same as Reddit). If it had more steps to that then I would’ve done that too because i acknowledge that Reddit is going to shit and I am committed to my principles.
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I liked it a few years ago but they made it worse every update til it became near unusable, I used the spot where the put answers to hold a community so I can browse multiple at once like tabs
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thats how it got shitty, you get thousands of pointless comments, reposts and bot accounts upvoted to the front page
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I think the verifcation question might trip ppl up, just not used to needing one or it being an actual answer, or copying and pasting for it, I signed up for a few and each time I felt like I was doing it wrong
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whoa bro chill with the fascism /s
