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?

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    “The hosts are too lazy” says the person whining about it without doing anything.

    Try switching to a platform you’ve never used before and making a community out of nothing, or host the Lemmy instance and be forced to deal with thousands of new users daily. Lazy my ass…

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    It feels familiar to old.reddit so i like it. Squabbles has an interesting approach to displaying posts + comments tho

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    I think Lemmy could use some more ads. I feel like I don’t have enough material things, and I don’t know what to buy. /s

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      I’m just glad it defaults to dark mode. Any site that defaults to light mode can go straight to hell.

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    I think the more they bitch about Reddit alternatives, the more people will be reminded that there are alternatives to Reddit.

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      Same, was using old.Reddit before and plan on figuring out how to use the tools I saw to redo lemmy to page layout on no stupid questions.

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    I do use Lemmy because the whole thing with Reddit just sucked, but holy hell yeah, new Reddit looked so much better. It’s not the world, I can get used to it and it’s fine, but the preference is clear.

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      Reddit is ridiculously slow in the last several years. When I click CMD+F to start search I need to wait several seconds because of all the JavaScript running.

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    I use a grease monkey script to make it basically identically to old Reddit. It’s wonderful. Highly recommended

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    It’s about personal preference. It’s important to have a user interface that’s modular and comfortable for the end user and manageable for the devs. Options are always the answer, the ability to enable or disable certain aspect or details is what drives me towards one app or the other. (This is coming from someone who used Infinity for Reddit for the past 4 years.)

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    I love the simplified interface. I do wish I could have a ‘Front Page’ view that creates an equivalent Community of all my subscriptions.

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    I definitely miss Reddit’s stylesheets. Giving mods control over the page’s CSS was just really neat. Everything had an individual flair