It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Just the interface” is a big deal.

    Reddit is the same backend as the Reddit I was using through a third party app a few months ago, but the user experience is significantly worse for me, because the interface I’m accessing the service through adds friction to how I use the service and steers me towards how I don’t use the service. Same with accessing email through a web interface versus Outlook versus Thunderbird versus Alpine versus the iOS Mail app.

    Lemmy is how I want to interact with user-generated text and comments. Mastodon’s interface is not. I don’t care that it happens to be ActivityPub on the backend, because the interface drives how I consume and interact with the content.

    • UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Try out Fedilab if you’re on Android. I’m not by any means a big user of Mastadon, but it really improved my experience over the official app.

      I still don’t really “get it” in regards to microblogging platforms, but I do occasionally find interesting things.