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.
Maybe you should quit lemmy? It just sounds like you’re tired of it. It’s cool, not everyone likes lemmy. Take a break. Go check out some other sites. Come back later after lemmy and the apps develop more and try again. No need for dramatic posts. No one’s gonna mind.
I like Lemmy, what I don’t like is the haphazard time consuming way it works.
I think you might have an addiction issue if you can’t live with having troubles for a couple of hours/days every now and then.
Or you’re fixating on issues that will end up not affecting you unless you’re an admin/mod/power user, in which case I don’t think you would be here complaining, you would be over there trying to fix shit (and I just checked and you’re neither of those, 137 comments in 4 months, not a mod of anything, not using your own instance).
Posted from SJW using Jerboa, I haven’t had any issues in months 🤷
So you don t like it? Make up your mind