I know that the purpose of Lemmy is to be split into instances and stuff to stay independent or whatever, but - imo - if it really wants to become a true alternative for Reddit it needs one place for users to land. Something like “LEMMY.COM” where you can see all instances + all communities, where you can log into your instance, maybe even log into more than one instance at once (let’s be honest, who doesn’t have a separate porn account these days lul)
The thing is, most of us used Reddit until now instead of Lemmy because Reddit did the overall browsing experience a lot better. Yeah it needed the help of third party apps for that, true, but I could just open reddit, look at r/all or my subscribed subreddits and be done with it. Being on Lemmy feels like “oh yeah, this is a great idea, but wow it is very inconvenient to look through this place”
(Btw, I LOVE the lemmy logo!)
This is an absolute fair take. The question is to ask is “what does Lemmy want to be”
If they want to be the “new” Reddit, some changes need to be made (again, imo)
If they want to be themselves no matter what, it’s okay to keep it like it is and see if it sticks with people or not.
I am brutally honest here - I want it to be Reddit, just better. Reddit, but without the same old mistakes. It’s the best Reddit alternative I see so far so I would hope that it would take the spot and make the changes to be that beautiful Reddit experience but improved.
Who is Lemmy though? Because it’s like asking what does human kind want to be or what do the collective children of Indonesia want to be when they grow up. Lemmy isn’t an entity, it’s decentralized and it is many things and it’s definitely not Reddit lol. So there’s no asking what Lemmy wants to be because everyone wants something different and that’s why I think lemmy is great because someone can set up their own instance and make it whatever they want.