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?
This is not incorrect. The site itself is a web app. It has programmatic functionality beyond what you would find on a static web site.
Yeah, but these people I’m talking about weren’t using the technical but the colloquial definition. They mean a mobile app, which was clear within context, saying things like how it replaced their social media addiction to instagram since they found “this app”.
Believe me, people complaining about the lack of fancy interfaces on their “apps” aren’t using the technical term differentiating a we app from a static site.