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?

  • @TheOneWithTheHair
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    141 year ago

    In the middle of 2010, "Due to a controversial redesign brought on by Digg, disgruntled users declared a “Quit Digg” day where they posted links to Reddit and left Digg behind to join Reddit. Reddit subsequently overtook Digg in search popularity. "

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Reddit

    Here’s what Reddit looked like on August 7, 2010

    https://web.archive.org/web/20100807085503/http://www.reddit.com/

    This is what Digg looked like on August 7, 2010

    https://web.archive.org/web/20100807080410/http://digg.com/

    Reddit’s had 18 years to tweak the user interface. Lemmy’s Initial release was May 5, 2019; 4 years ago. Honestly, I have no issue with Lemmy’s interface, but I feel confident in saying that given another 14 years of development, Lemmy will probably not look like it does today.

    • @utopianfiat
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      91 year ago

      You can also make it look any way you want b/c it’s open source

      • @Sjoerd1993
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        71 year ago

        Reddit used to be open source as well

    • AnActualFossil
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      31 year ago

      Reddit still looks pretty much the same as that to me whenever I connect to it. RES probably helps though.

    • @WhiteTiger
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      01 year ago

      By that logic nobody should ever switch to lemmy because it’ll always be a decade behind the times.

      • @TheOneWithTheHair
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        11 year ago

        Unless Tomorrow’s Reddit becomes Today’s Digg. Once hot, now not.

        • @WhiteTiger
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          21 year ago

          I’m criticizing the logic, not the site