Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?
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.
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Not a mod so you might not care about my opinion but...
I don't hate lemmy and hope it will continue to improve but at the same time, I still feel the UI is a bit minimal and lacking on a lot of features right now (TBF probably some of it is me getting used to it still). Some of this works in its favor tho.. like if I created a new account on reddit, I'd have to deal with all the karma bs again before I could even post to most subs. Here, this is my first post on this instance, and no problems AFAICT... which is really fucking awesome IMO. Other things, like how to show all communities sorted by # of subscribers or how I search for a specific phrase in a specific community (like "rootless docker" + "qbittorrent" in c/Piracy for instance), I am still a bit unclear if there is even a way to do that.
I don't see anything overtaking lemmy immediately. kbin is the next closest one I can think of that is open-source + federated and not controlled by a company and I think it is even less smooth than lemmy right now. There's mastodon but IMO that is more twitter alternative than reddit alternative.
But I guess if something came along that checked all the right boxes (foss, federated, markdown, long-form comments, more features, etc) then I would at least be open to considering it.
There's plenty of apps now and if you want a web app have you tried wefwef?
Sorry, should have clarified... I meant on desktop site via browser.
It's supposed to support desktop too but I haven't tried. May still look more like a mobile app though. I'm sure someone will make a desktop focused one as well. I've already seen a lot of user scripts.
That's cool and I genuinely wish them luck with it, as it will probably help lemmy adoption... but for me, I'm pretty partial to staying in the browser. Have a shit load of addons I like, including userscripts. plus, I run librewolf with a firejail container and I'm too lazy to write a new profile for whatever app just for one site lol. Still I hope after the infra issues get some love that the site UI won't end up lagging too far behind the apps
Whoa, thanks for sharing this. It looks great!
Update: I can now answer one of my own questions, in case anybody else was also puzzled.
Mostly, I was confused bc I was on reddit too long and I was expecting a way to do this from within the community I would like to search through. You can still do it but you have to click on Communities from site header menu, then choose Comments (or you can pick Posts but then replies to posts will not be searched) , then under the Community dropdown search and select the one you want, last enter your search term(s) and click Search.
I probably need to go find some documentation and see if lemmy searches support more advanced stuff like AND / OR / negation / etc or if only simple searches are possible right now, but it's a start.