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Good, but slow

After your first post, i've thought about your points, and i've changed my opinions a little.

I agree, we should replace the default lemmy UI as a whole. Out with it. But photon wasn't designed to be a "default" UI. It was designed as an alternative.

The point of a default UI is to be as accessible as possible, yet still functional. That's why most users on the fediverse usually use a 3rd party client (Including me, i use photon + raccoon on mobile). While the current lemmy UI checks the "performance" box, the functionality box? not so much. It feels like everytime i use it i am overwhelmed with information density, and the auto expand feature implementation is just bad. Photon does the opposite. It checks the functionality box, but scratches the performance box. Even on a modern PC, photon is choppy for me, and the frosted glass effect is not helping.

I don't think we should have a default lemmy UI, as in, every instance uses the same UI. As i said in the first post, it should be up to the instance maintainer to choose their own UI. This comes with its own problems. Lemmy.world's photon is outdated, and so is lemdro.id.

Ultimately, this is in the hands of the instance maintainers, and Xylight himself. He is rewriting photon for more performance, so my answer may change.

In my country, and today, somehow, astonishingly, this combination makes me what most would call very left leaning.

Let me guess, the US? The only people i've ever heard call liberals something as BS as far-left communists are conservative americans. The overton window in america is so ridiculous it's hilarious.

Absolutely yes. Anarchists on reddit were largely only anarchist by name, and we don't even have a proper community here. And anarchist communities on instances such as lemmy.ml are even worse, to be honest. Most political representation on lemmy is for authoritarian leftists, where's the love for anarchy :(

I agree. I should have specified, i meant left-libertarianism.

They are? i'm not sure where you live, but most of the world considers them to be right wing.

There are many right wingers here, not conservatives. Liberals are right wing, and lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works are mainly liberal instances.

What rimu was mainly talking about are conservatives, or even far right users. So he wasn't criticizing the whole right wing, he just used the term right wing to refer to those.

Yep, paradox of tolerance. We shouldn't bend over for far-right, or even fascists for the sake of "pure tolerance".

I've skimmed the lemmy.world modlog, and it seems you seem to be right. That was a bad example.

But my point was moreso on the stubbornness of mods. For example, if i suggest that China is bad on lemmy.ml, that'll get me a ban under the guise of "rule 1". Why? it's not against the rules, it's not bigoted or racist.

If i write controversial, or even bigoted comments, then that's another story. I was criticizing power tripping mods that ban users if they personally disagree with them, instead of actually break the rules

Don't forget our dear Dessalines, he's a very sensitive one.

Don't even need to challenge it. Just criticize a mod, and you're banished to the void lmao

The problem doesn't seem to be that instances want to cater to a unique political group (that's why we have federation) It's that most instances cater to the same or similar groups. I think in general it's better that instances are differentiated by political beliefs. For example, i don't like Hexbear. I just block it. But if hexbear and solarpunk were a single instance, i wouldn't be able to separate the good and the bad.

But i agree that separating yourself too much from other ideas is bad, and echo chambers are bad in general.