Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
I use a grease monkey script to make it basically identically to old Reddit. It’s wonderful. Highly recommended
Which script do you like?
These are the most important ones I use.
Kbin Enhancement Script User: @SirPsychoMantis
Improved Collapsible Comments User: @artillect
Floating Subs List User: @raltsm4k
Kbin-Unsquash User: @shazbot
I’m using the compact version of lemmy_monkey and a script I wrote to force external links to open in new tabs (reddit did this automatically so I constantly forget to press the middle mouse button and then get annoyed that my lemmy scrolling is gone)
Compact lemmy_monkey: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469093-compact-lemmy-to-old-reddit-re-format-observer GM-Open-NewTab: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469196-gm-lemmy-newtab
Both observe on all http*:/// but they both use the same “isLemmy” check to determine if any logic should actually execute, so while it seems a bit rough at first they are not doing anything nefarious or unnecessary besides a single js comparison of the head elements.