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?
Honestly I like it better than old.reddit for some things. Comments are automatically scaled up to a friendly size. I’m not killing my eyes by being too lazy to zoom in anymore ha.
Some of the formatting could use work, but it’s hardly a deal breaker.