Morning all, Just a quick update to say I’m making good progress with the development and we just hit 24k email signups!

Lj

  • fidodo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Connect is good but the 3rd party Reddit apps were so crazy polished. The absolute dumbest thing spez did as an outcome of his dumb decisions was he sent all the best app developers on his platform, straight to his biggest competitor.

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      1 year ago

      I mean third party apps have had over a decade more time to get polished in comparison to the Lemmy options. I’m not really optimistic that Lemmy is a true competitor to reddit. While I, personally, no longer want to support reddit, only a tiny fraction of reddit’s user base has made the switch to Lemmy, and if you go over to reddit right now, not much has changed. Posts are still getting orders of magnitude more interactions than posts here. Some mods will leave but people will eagerly replace them. I also think Lemmy is inherently a little difficult to understand. I’m pretty tech savvy and I had issues figuring it out. The average user is going to struggle a lot which is bad for becoming more widespread.

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        1 year ago

        The ui code can be reused so a lot of the polish can be ported over. I don’t care for Lemmy to get as big as Reddit. I want it to get bigger than it is now but once you got a critical mass extra users don’t make the community any better.