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.

  • AcornCarnage@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    Just a few thoughts…

    • Lemmy isn't ready for primetime. It isn't meant to be at this point. It's very much a work in progress and for a lot of us, seeing the progress is part of the fun in being here.

    • Yeah, lemmy.world had some issues, but things have been pretty stable for me for a few weeks now.

    • I'm on Eternity, and no issues so far. But I'll keep an eye out when lemmy.world updates to 0.18.5. Again, this is part of the progress. Sometimes shit breaks. If that's a deal breaker for you, it's totally understandable.

    • I guess ultimately, it's just about what you're comfortable with. If you aren't interested in dealing with the issues that come along with early adoption, just move on. It's okay. For me, I've been breaking and fixing computers for almost 40 years. It can be a bummer when something doesn't work, but there are so many people freely giving their time and efforts to fix things that I can't really be mad about it. I know how it goes and that things will get fixed.