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?
Yeah, I’m over here writing CSS to remove junk (avatar icons, sidebars, etc, bump up nested comment indent, yada yada) from Lemmy pages because it’s not text-only enough.
It’s cool that others like a fancier view. I want it to be almost nothing but text.