Or why Lemmy is too much like hard work
The sole admin of the first instance I joined (which isn’t small) has gone missing. So it’s been defederated by some other instances. Then re-federated by some of them.
So about six weeks ago I made an account with instance two, which seems to be well run BUT updates to the latest version so it doesn’t work with any of the third party apps I use.
Which wouldn’t be an issue except the Lemmy web UI works horribly on mobile. There’s a PWA but that hasn’t been updated and won’t now authenticate.
So I joined a third instance but that seems to have completely disappeared without warning.
I’d join Lemmy.world but it has regular resource issues and downtime. Plus moderation issues.
App 1 hasn’t seen any development for over three months and now barely functions.
App 2 which is apparently the second most popular app now only receives emergency fixes when it won’t work at all
Apps 3 and 4 throw authentication errors on any instance running above 0.18.4 because the developers are re-thinking.
As a user it’s almost enough to send me to Reddit.
Hmm, I have had different experiences from you, joined lemmy.world and use liftoff and while it has occasionally been down, it certainly hasn’t seemed frequent to me. And I have yet to see any indication that anything isn’t working right in liftoff, but I don’t know what to look for really.
But to answer your question of why go through the hassle of dealing with Lemmy? To me it’s an easy answer, Lemmy is getting better week by week, it’s a good feeling. You see something you don’t like about it, and you can be pretty sure it’ll be fixed soon. You go on Reddit and it’s getting worse and worse every week, it’s a bad feeling. You see something you like about it, you can be pretty sure it’ll be “fixed” soon.