They do have a point about seeing the same content. Maybe there could be a button where all the posts to the point the user has scrolled to get marked as read and archived for them. And then their front page is filled with different posts.

More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

I had this exact experience. The solution? Just loud subscribe to stuff and now I have 80 notifications a day about new posts which I struggle to keep up with. Clearly the fediverse isn't as inactive as I had the impression from just browsing it.

The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can't do them either.

Do all Lemmy frontends use those captchas? Might be a reason to recommend a different one by default.

I do have to say, I bounced off Lemmy and Piefed mostly due to their UI and UX. I probably wouldn't have joined the fediverse if I didn't come across a kbin.social recommendation back then. Mbin is much more up my alley, though not ideal either, but it has worked out for me so far.

I dont remember the different frontends since I just voyager on iphone these days, think phtn and tesseract were good, maybe one had a controversy

I find it difficult to care about someone complaining about a site like this when they never contribute OC.

No new content? They should go out of their way to document something new in their lives or something interesting that they did and contribute by posting OC.

Or in the very least create their own RSS feed from other sites of topics they enjoy and then post those links here for others to enjoy. They can’t even to that.

They are just selfish people who don’t want a community. They want a feed for their entertainment.

They can stay on Reddit. I don’t want to suffer them.

Most of the UI complaints can be solved by using a different front-end. I guess that should be emphasized more when trying to convince people to try it. If any of those people never used old.reddit, I doubt they’ll like reddit either if that was the interface.

Even with all the blocks I've made it just seems to be a bunch of toxic left wing people calling each other fascist because of some minor difference in opinion.

Lol. This part rings so true!

Incredible how the things they complain are much of the reasons why I use lemmy instead of reddit where I can. I can visit the site again 3 or 5 or even 7 days later without FOMO. The interface is much more agreeable (agree that some of the contrasts could use help, but the UI element themselves are fine), and you can choose between different themes. Here it’s left-wing, instead of transparent MAGAts.

This is completely bananas to me, given the Reddit UI…

The Fediverse does require a little effort, as there is no algorithm spoonfeeding you content. Personally, I like that the barrier of entry requires some human effort as it feels like a natural filter for the sorts of elements we don’t want integrating here from platforms like Reddit.

I think the UI is better than new reddit, but if it's more complicated, maybe that'll keep stupid people out. Let them stay on reddit.

On UI: dunno if it's a me thing, but it would seem to me as that every site's bad until you get used to it. Piefed for example I find kinda bloated but once I learned where to look, it became much easier to use.

On avoiding content: yeah, requires some patience people usually don't have to block everyone and every place that lowers the quality of the user's feed.

On slower feeds: maybe an autism thing, or maybe because in Mbin, I consume both threads and microblogs, but I feel the opposite, too much to see, enough that I am forced to curate.

On seeing posts again: a bit of a tangent, but both Lemmy and Piefed have post-hiding features. The option is "hidden" in the 3 dots menu of each post, which would imply people are forgetting these 3 dots mean "more options"? Perhaps in this line, having a "more" button like on Mbin would be better?

On porn: FediNSFW. 🕵‍♂

On being complicated: migrating and integrating usually is, but is needed.

Would make those comments there if I still had access to my account. Oh well.

Bro Reddit has horrible UI/UX

People will complain no matter what.

None of them miss the ads? Weird.

As for the NSFW, I don’t blame most instance admins for banning it. There IS an NSFW instance, and .world allows softcore stuff. On the actual NSFW instance, there are a few users who post fauxbait exclusively. That is to say, adult women who try to make themselves look like teenagers/prepubescent children. No ink, no piercings, waxed genitals, and completely or nearly flat-chested. Sure, there are legitimate adult women who fit some of those, but do they also wear their hair in pigtails, clutch stuffies or a blankie, or other childlike behaviour? Generally no. I saw an interview with a very interesting young lady who looks 10 or 11 but is in her 20s, and she fights every day to be recognised as a valid adult. I think there are a few people who have illegal content on their drives and they are very careful about what they actually post, and maybe some illegal stuff does get through… IMO, they make the entire NSFW scene look bad, and they are the reason for the ‘censorship’.

If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

This is the whole reason I use Lemmy! I hate the endless algorithmic slop feeds designed to ensnare users for as long as possible. Let me reach the end! Let me see how posts I’ve already seen have developed! Let me be done with a website for any amount of time!!!

Are they using a 3rd party app like Voyager? It makes a big difference.