Post with 22k upvotes mentions Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit
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Nice, but the only comment I see about Lemmy, is someone who can't comprehend that the domain "lemmy.world" exists and not "lemmy.com", because "that's what an internet address is to the average user".
God yeah, what a frustrating sentiment to see. Very common among people who won't give the fediverse any modicum of good faith engagement. "This is different from what people are used to and is therefore bad" instead of understanding that maybe there's a reason it's built that way.
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Be careful with that. I went back in time and edited my posts to contain small errors to make them useless wastes of time for the reader and poison AI.
Yeah and we hate you for it.
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That’s OK. Reddit later forced my account from my hands and I no longer have access to it. So it’s not my problem.
They decided to ban me but keep the posts. Their loss.
No, it's not your problem, it's the rest of ours (thanks for that), but it is your fault.
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yeah I left reddit completely and moved to lemmy. but search results still show reddit threads sometimes. so that particular thing is malicious to everyone and has very little to do with reddit.
its just shitty. a much better way to do it would be to edit the comment with an addendum to say how crap reddit is and there are alternatives with a link.
don't punish normal people who are desperate to find a solution to something.
Leaving your comments up contributes value to Reddit. Value you provided them before they fucked you. If you take them down, people will just have to find that information elsewhere. It sucks that they're no longer available for the public, but that's on Reddit, not the user who removed their comments.
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No, it's not your problem, it's the rest of ours (thanks for that), but it is your fault.
Well, I’m kind of stuck with it at this point. I appealed it and they never answered. Not much I can do. Oh well.
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No, it's not your problem, it's the rest of ours (thanks for that), but it is your fault.
(just don't use reddit)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40072140
And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let's keep guiding them to better UX
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Nice, but the only comment I see about Lemmy, is someone who can't comprehend that the domain "lemmy.world" exists and not "lemmy.com", because "that's what an internet address is to the average user".
Sadly what he says is true to many.
I've seen people who were directed to p.lemmy.world call it a dodgy virus link.
And honestly it does look dodgy, lemmy.com would be great.
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That just seems malicious to anyone who might find your answer and get increasingly frustrated by your incorrect advice.
Oh well.
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@[email protected] is owner of lemm.ee
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And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let's keep guiding them to better UX
I'm willing to discuss UI/UX issues but that top comment is just stupid.
The first complaint is that "lemmy.world" shouldn't exist, because websites should be dot com. That's not a UI/UX issue, that's just ignorance. As we all know Bluesky has also failed to pickup any users due to its URL bsky.app, you obviously can't have a dot app website!
The second argument is worth looking at, but it's unclear based on their comment what went wrong. If you go to Reddit and search for Brazil/Brasil do you just magically find every community you're looking for? I doubt it. Discovery can and should be improved but this person found an instance before a community?
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And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let's keep guiding them to better UX
Let’s keep guiding them to better UX
I've been trying the Photon/Voyager approach, the issue is that some people despise Photon and modernist interfaces with a passion, there's a comment on that thread I had to link to old.lemmy.zip
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And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let's keep guiding them to better UX
I don't have any issues with the lemmy interface.
I'd rather they don't mess it up to appease people who prefer reddit's interface, old or new.
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I'm willing to discuss UI/UX issues but that top comment is just stupid.
The first complaint is that "lemmy.world" shouldn't exist, because websites should be dot com. That's not a UI/UX issue, that's just ignorance. As we all know Bluesky has also failed to pickup any users due to its URL bsky.app, you obviously can't have a dot app website!
The second argument is worth looking at, but it's unclear based on their comment what went wrong. If you go to Reddit and search for Brazil/Brasil do you just magically find every community you're looking for? I doubt it. Discovery can and should be improved but this person found an instance before a community?
Really shows the average intelligence of the average internet user.
As I get smarter, they just stay the same!
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Reddit is trash. I got banned for hating on Nazis, they will bend to Trump, cut off porn and throw the ban hammer down. Reddit is only good for finding tech answers from the past. Everything else is trash.
Reddit is a censorship hellhole.
The modlog is one of the greatest features of lemmy.
Fuck censorship.
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Sadly what he says is true to many.
I've seen people who were directed to p.lemmy.world call it a dodgy virus link.
And honestly it does look dodgy, lemmy.com would be great.
And honestly it does look dodgy, lemmy.com would be great.
This only makes the problem worse. We need to expose people to other TLDs and subdomains so they can see for themselves how expansive and adaptable the internet really is.
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I'm willing to discuss UI/UX issues but that top comment is just stupid.
The first complaint is that "lemmy.world" shouldn't exist, because websites should be dot com. That's not a UI/UX issue, that's just ignorance. As we all know Bluesky has also failed to pickup any users due to its URL bsky.app, you obviously can't have a dot app website!
The second argument is worth looking at, but it's unclear based on their comment what went wrong. If you go to Reddit and search for Brazil/Brasil do you just magically find every community you're looking for? I doubt it. Discovery can and should be improved but this person found an instance before a community?
Part of me just thinks this place needs a natural barrier to entry. Look what happened to the internet when the iPhone released.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40072140
I think a big problem I see with several pro-lemmy comments in that thread (but also other threads) is that they completely miss the point of the user and just try to shove down the same message that isn't actually relevant to OP.
Like when OP complains about the user experience with the example of accessing a not-yet-federated community, clearly a mechanical problem that can't easily be fixed by a redesign, and the replies advertise alternate Lemmy frontends or apps. Those don't help with OP's issue at all.
Or when OP says that they'll probably just leave social media entirely when Reddit goes bad, and people tell them to use Lemmy apps...
It honestly feels sometimes like I'm reading bot responses. Imo this is just turning people off even more, the ads need to be more context aware.
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I think a big problem I see with several pro-lemmy comments in that thread (but also other threads) is that they completely miss the point of the user and just try to shove down the same message that isn't actually relevant to OP.
Like when OP complains about the user experience with the example of accessing a not-yet-federated community, clearly a mechanical problem that can't easily be fixed by a redesign, and the replies advertise alternate Lemmy frontends or apps. Those don't help with OP's issue at all.
Or when OP says that they'll probably just leave social media entirely when Reddit goes bad, and people tell them to use Lemmy apps...
It honestly feels sometimes like I'm reading bot responses. Imo this is just turning people off even more, the ads need to be more context aware.
Like when OP complains about the user experience with the example of accessing a not-yet-federated community, clearly a mechanical problem that can’t easily be fixed by a redesign, and the replies advertise alternate Lemmy frontends or apps. Those don’t help with OP’s issue at all.
The first point of that comment is about the interface, hence the suggestions to alternative frontends.
The community was federated, but the user wasn't using their local version, they thought they had to use the community host instance.
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That just seems malicious to anyone who might find your answer and get increasingly frustrated by your incorrect advice.
It makes reddit less helpful i dont want to be helpful if it helps reddit make a dime
