Looking for a Reddit alternative? Lemmy tell you, they currently kinda suck
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I tried out a growing Reddit alternative, Lemmy, for a week, and its clear that federated apps aren't ready to replace Reddit yet.

TLDR: the article says , lemmy is confusing , too broken and kinda unusable coz servers run on whims.

While I have been active here since a month now , I have had nothing but only a positive experience on lemmy , what about you guys ?

  • AbsolutelyNotABotEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    I mean… What? That’s kind of exactly what’s happening in lemmy communities

    Indeed I can understand this one. I’m really liking Lemmy but discoverability is pretty bad, add the fact the ranking is shit and pretty useless in suggesting interesting content and you will understand his point.

    Reddit has both much more content and not only a better ranking system but also a functioning personalized algorithm, if you want to use it.

    To this day, all of the non mainstream Lemmy communities I’m following it’s because I’ve used to follow the subreddit and it migrated here.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      Well Reddit also has the advantage of a lot of years fine-tuning itself.

    • CheshireSnake@lemdit.comEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Oh definitely. There are many things that lemmy needs to work on. It’s nowhere near as stable as reddit as it stands.

      But the author was pointing out how reddit is better since it sorts topics by subreddits, implying that lemmy doesn’t do that (which is absolutely false).

      As far as discovery and amount of content, I fully agree. Reddit just has much more users than lemmy. There’s no argument. Discoverability is also another aspect I’d love to be improved on in lemmy. If you’re in a small/new instance, you probably won’t see a ton of communities compared to a bigger one.

      I’m pretty optimistic, though. I think we’re just getting started.

      • AbsolutelyNotABotEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think we’re just getting started.

        Yeah of course, we need to remember Lemmy is not even out of beta yet. But people don’t really care, they try it once and if the user experience isn’t at the level of competitors they simply won’t use it unless there’s a philosophical rationale (for example decentralization, but many don’t care at all). That’s why I’m so happy many developers with great UX experience like Sync are approaching the platform