It’s probably a bit of both - wefwef has been around for literally just days at this point I believe, so I have high hopes it will continue to improve.
Beyond that, there are a lot of people who feel Apollo is/was the best user experience for Reddit, and there will be a LOT of devs trying to emulate that - one way or another, we’re going to get a high-quality Apollo replacement eventually.
Are you using it as an installed PWA? I’m not having any issues with animations or scrolling. I have run into a few weird UI bugs with slide up menus within communities, but that’s about it.
Highly recommend checking out wefwef - closest option to an Apollo clone as I’ve seen so far in terms of UI and functionality, and doesn’t even need to be installed. Memmy is a very good second place option, but I’ve been using wefwef since I heard about it yesterday and ZI think it’s better.
Yeah the icon is goofy but I can overlook it for the time being - I’d rather them focus on features and functionality and bring the fun stuff later (which seems to be how they’re approaching this)
Memmy is developing at a crazy fast rate - it’s leapfrogged Mlem in features and stability already imho.
too little, too late.
Yeah, I agree with it feeling “off” - can’t put my finger on exactly why. It feels like someone’s hobby project, as in one single person. The UI feels cluttered and not well thought out.
As other people have pointed out too, it gives me a weird vibe that there’s no information about who created it, who controls it, how it’s moderated. And the domain was registered on GoDaddy like three months ago… just feels really off to me.
The horizontal blocks UI with post content on the left, and discussion on the right, frankly sucks. Weird font choices across the interface as well.
Scaling costs will be untenable if Squabbles ever starts to gain serious user traction, and then they’re in the same predicament as Reddit - you have to monetize somehow in order to pay for the infrastructure. That’s either ads, paid subscriptions, or selling your user data.
I don’t see how this is any better than Reddit.
Isn’t the whole point of federation to allow users to choose the instance they want to use? I think it sets a bad precedent if instances were to block them from federating entirely without reason simply because that instance happens to be run by Meta.
If anything, this would be a huge boon for federated networks and ActivityPub as a whole to have participation from such a large-scale user base.
And there are a lot of people out there who would be scared away from the technical learning curve of things like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc - giving them a more “conventional” way to participate in federated networks is a great way to get people acquainted.
More participation is a good thing.
v1 of Vision Pro? Probably not.
Once the tech has matured and the price point comes down? Probably.
This is a relatively new product category so it’s tough to predict, but if you’re going solely off of Apple’s track record the last 20 years, the first couple of iterations will be enthusiast/luxury products that will drive interest and create demand, and then will become more commonplace. iPod, iPhone, Apple Watch all followed this lifecycle for the most part.
It’s like they actively want to drive users away. I know a lot of people have said this, but it really feels like Reddit is about to have its Digg moment.
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