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Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Blackbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] mrh@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy has certainly already won me over reddit. Going back to centralized social media is something I will actively avoid if at all possible.

However I believe nostr is a theoretically better protocol than activitypub. Having your account/identity tied so strongly to a particular instance is undesirable. As soon as there is a reddit-like (or even forum-like) client for nostr which is relatively active/polished, I will switch. Nip 172 can't come soon enough.

In addition to being less popular / newer than activitypub, nostr is also full of bitcoin[^1] bros and twitter refugees (not my crowd). But frankly I think complaints about that are like the complaints that lemmy is a place for tankies a couple years ago when people's only exposure was to a (much smaller than today) lemmy.ml.

[^1]: monero support would be nice though...

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

However I believe nostr is a theoretically better protocol than activitypub

[-] mrh@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

While there's a grain of truth in this, I don't think anybody should be pushing for some standard to be "the" standard which eclipses all others now and forever. People, given sufficient freedom and knowledge, will gravitate towards what works best, be it old or new. Nostr is simply the protocol I prefer. I think it's better. Why pretend otherwise just becoause activitypub happened to come first and thus is currently more popular?