No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.
I’m hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don’t love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren’t out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.
As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.
I’m not a fan of it. I have three separate accounts on lemmy servers. I don’t like the separation of different servers that are happening and I feel like it’s all a big mess. I know it can improve but so far I’m not impressed. I also agree with others that it is very slow in terms of performance.
Generally, you do not need multiple accounts on different lemmy servers. You can “use” the other servers with one account. And, that you have multiple different servers, is by design.
Or are you referring to defederation, when you are writing about “seperation”?
Why do you have 3 separate accounts? I have 4 accounts on 4 servers, but I’m pretty much using this one account for everything. I’m still checking those other accounts in case I got any mails, but I think this will be my only active account.
What…why? You only need one account. You have the ability to join, read, and post on any other federated “magazine”. The only caveat is if a site decides to break their ties like beehaw.org did from Lemmy.world until the latter got their bot situation/login guardrails in place.
The easiest way IMO is to just subscribe to other communities(make sure you search ‘all’ communities instead of ‘local’. )
If you’re using a web browser(mobile or desktop) if you’re looking for a specific community you can just append it to the end of your home url if the above solution isn’t working for whatever reason but I wouldn’t expect anyone would need to manually type out these urls.
Example:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/(community)@[instance] - this is not a working site just a reference
so the following links all end up on the same technology community on beehaw.org:
open me
https://beehaw.org/c/technology
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/technology@beehaw.org
https://lemmy.world/c/technology@beehaw.org
https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org
The only confusing thing that I think may get people is if they create accounts on both Kevin and Lemmy and start getting confused by magazine vs collection(essentially subreddits or /r/ from reddit)
Also maybe, why does data such as upvotes, user’s subscribed, upvotes/boosts look different on(for instance):
vs
It’s the same posts and the same comments, you aren’t missing out on anything . However the upvotes, views, and subscribers are all coming from lemmy.world specifically to https://beehaw.org/c/technology
You aren’t seeing beehaw’s upvotes and number of subscriber, but just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. This is why I’d urge for people to find one instance to call home. If you make accounts on multiple instances it’s just going to cause confusion for no good reason.
I think there have been enough threads created on this but I hope this helps you out.