Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?

To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?

  • UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes people do like nice design and user interfaces. Apple managed to grab a large market share by understanding that.

    It doesn’t have to be cluttered but it doesn’t have to be … this.

    If you want things to improve, you are going to have to accept criticism that your current crush isn’t perfect. There is already a lot of the toxic Reddit’ness that has come over, we don’t need more.

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      1 year ago

      I was just talking in another thread with a guy about how people will downvote a helpful comment just because they don’t agree with the content. I was hoping Lemmy would be like old Reddit. Back when we encouraged thoughtful, helpful, discussion. But it looks like Lemmy is just gonna be people being snarky and upvote whoring. I assumed not having karma would have prevented that.

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        1 year ago

        Karma or points system gives incentive to contribute. Best of both worlds is if ppl comment/post to engage in discussion and contribute and the points are an afterthought/added value rather than as a vehicle to gain more points clout or whatever but i think we need to accept there will always be some who value “the game” over everything else