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  • This is sadly it. If it gets niche enough, there’s no way around Reddit.

    I completely replaced Reddit with Lemmy for political topics, for wasting time, for doom scrolling and so on. But when I need information about a niche topic (e.g. how to overclock the 15yo netbook I recently got), there’s just no way around Reddit.

    That’s the difference between 50k monthly active users and 360mio weekly active users. There are dozens of subreddits that have more active users than all of Lemmy combined…

    Sadly, the big exodus is still pending.

    Or luckily, considering how badly Lemmy instances scale. If a few million users were to migrate over to Lemmy, probably the whole system would just collapse.


  • Mostly Lemmy here. I use it for my doomscrolling and distraction, and for that it’s imho much better than Reddit, since the content is much less fake (I hate all that AITA creative writing and similar crap) and the politics are better.

    I do sometimes use Reddit for when I actually have questions about some deeper topic. Lemmy sadly doesn’t have the manpower and the decades of content to help me when I need to know how to overclock a specific 15 yo netbook or when I need help with some issue in a game or something. For that, there’s sadly hardly a way around Reddit. Some things can be (badly) covered by Stack Exchange, some things I can maybe find on DuckDuckGo between heaps of AI slop, or I could let ChatGPT lie to me by hallucinating a wrong answer. But in many cases there is sadly no way around Reddit.


  • Two things can be true at the same time:

    • GNOME devs can pour hundreds of hours of free labour specifically into accessibility
    • GNOME accessibility still sucks

    And GNOME is not alone with that problem, it’s prevalent in the large majority of apps and platforms, because accessibility is really hard especially if you don’t have a tester with the specifically accessibility need on staff.

    OOP says they have a legally blind and a semi-blind person on staff, but that’s by far not the only accessibility issue. Accessibility is much more than just screen reader support.

    A big one is learning difficulties, and for that, having an UI that can be used the way the user wants/expects/knows how to is very important. And here, the very concept of an opinionated DE contradicts accessibility.