No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.
I’m hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don’t love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren’t out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.
As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.
I’m hoping kbin will be more popular and improve at it gains users. I like the microblogging feature, because it ‘tiers’ the content we’d share, and makes different users/communities easier to discover.
But it’s a very new platform, so it will be a while before it sees fruition; it also has almost all users on a single instance kbin.social; so other instances lack content (it doesn’t federate as cleanly as Lemmy) and makes users over-reliant on the admins of that instance, undermining the point of federation.
Unfortunately few platforms design with accessibility in mind; they consider it a ‘nice to have’, not a ‘need to have’. As platforms get bigger they’ll gain the interest of coders that consider accessibility to be as much a ‘need to have’ as the rest of the front-end. After all, Reddit itself was never accessible - 3rd party devs made it so, and they will again.