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?

  • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.