It's unfortunate that people still think Brave is a good privacy alternative. Ungoogled-Chromium is a better alternative but also unfortunately requires manual upkeep. The best alternative is to use Mull or LibreWolf currently and some form of abstraction if you're concerned about security as well.
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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 know if we want users who can’t grasp the concept that Lemmy and Lemmy.world are different entities and thinks that all of Lemmy should just be Lemmy.com
I think just having a Lemmy branded app with a proper UX is a good thing but let’s not just throw the baby out with the bathwater chasing people who just want Lemmy to be Reddit but it doesn’t make them feel yucky using it.
Thank you for your comments on Reddit btw
Do we have any fun infographics to help educate those that aren't autodidacts?
I really forgot how stupid some reddit comments are. I do not miss that site.
What if I told you that there are really stupid comments on Lemmy as well
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.
Really shows the average intelligence of the average internet user.
As I get smarter, they just stay the same!
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.
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
Maybe alongside the modern UIs, you could include a line about the mlmym interfaces.
But then they'll say it's confusing to have several links to the same website x)
In my opinion, most people won't get confused by the 'old' interface being at a different subdomain, especially as Reddit did it themselves (apparently they had new.reddit.com which hosted an older redesign than reddit.com, like wtf!?? But somehow people understood that distinction, so this should be fine) Then again, I could be too much of a nerd and overestimating people :P (insert relevent xkcd here)
btw, does sopuli.xyz have the mlmym interface?
Some people will never be happy...
I think people who like .old tend to be more tech savvy, and can figure out how to find a UI they like
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.
I never got banned. I just left because the greedy little CEO is a liar that sacrificed the only thing that made the site good, 3rd party apps, on the alter of the almighty dollar during the API debacle.
To be honest the quality of posts, comments, and moderation policies had gone way down hill since at least 2020. The killing of 3rd party apps just gave me the motivation to finally leave
To be honest the quality of posts, comments, and moderation policies had gone way down hill since at least 2020.
Wasn't that when they banned /r/chapotraphouse? 🤔
Reddit is a censorship hellhole.
The modlog is one of the greatest features of lemmy.
Fuck censorship.
censorship is at least entertaining here becuase of the modlog and subs discussing it reddit drama isnt even entertaining there because those posts get locked and everyone temp banend or perma banned
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.
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
Oh well.
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.
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. Much of Reddit's value is a giant repository of user-generated information, which they've turned around and monetized to enrich themselves. 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.
You can repost all your valuable comments and solutions here and drive traffic to Lemmy instead.
Yeah, Reddit benefits from the traffic regardless of the accuracy of the posts, so this is mostly wasting the time of regular people with issues who are trying to search for an answer.
Yeah and we hate you for it.
I used to, then reddit banned me, now I cant delete my comments, it feels awful that im helping ppl and a site im banned from is making money off me, it doesnt matter if its even a dollar of ad money, what if my comment showing up on google motivates someone to dload the app
Seems to depend massively on the sub though, most I am in will never see a right winger above -20 and constantly mocked at best.
Though some subs I've been banned from over there the reasons were as simple as "criticizing China and/or Russia" or "participating in a specific other sub"
The subs I hang around in are currently the same to right wingers (downvoted to oblivion) but that's partly because attempting to participate in a lot of lefty subs over there you get banned for talking about China in a negative way. The other subs aren't political so those ones aren't too bad.
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.
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.
yeah corporations having a hold on us means we only trust what they use, all new domains seem sus
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.
lemmy.com does appear to work though (redirects to lemm.ee, not sure who hosts it)
While it's excellent that Lemmy is getting some attention out on the capitalist web, I'm not sure I'm personally interested in hearing about what is trending on Reddit in the Fediverse community - for me, Fedibridge seems like a great community specifically for that. But I might be a minority, not trying to be negativistic! :)