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?

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    Reddit’s UI and performance was pretty horrible for me in the browser. That being said, I find Lemmy’s UI and performance worse. 😢

    They definitely need to hire a real designer and work on performance. It’s pretty bad when I try to subscribe to a community on lemmy.ml from lemmy.world. It takes like minutes for me for the request to go through.

    The contrast between white and lime green is pretty bad too. The design makes the app feel cheap. That matters for a lot of people.

    I’m hopeful Lemmy will get better over time. 👍

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      Everything looks better on Jerboa. I went back on the browser to see what you’re talking about and immediately saw what you’re talking about!

      Shouldn’t be too hard to change the CSS, but I wish this isn’t the default. Even grey would look better.

      I hope the devs check these posts out.

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        I honestly have a hard time using it outside of Jerboa. It’s not just UI, but functionality issues as well. I don’t blame people for being turned off. It’s a big part of the reason why I don’t think we’ll see large scale adoption. And I don’t even think the current way things are set up can handle large scale.

        Lemmy is a good experiment, but I’m not sure this form of federation is going to work.

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          In FOSS there’s two kinds of people. Those who contribute to the change they want to see in the world, and people who bitch about unimportant things.

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      Lemmy hosters don’t need to use the official UI, it’s just the only one that currently exists, we just need a better front end developed by someone