Does it still seem difficult to understand, use, etc? did you come across anything positive?
That there’s no single “correct” place to go. Lemmy the software can’t really endorse a single instance.
I don’t think this really matters beyond signing up for an account. You can follow a community on any federated instance, from any federated instance. So it’s practically transparent to me as a user whether your community is on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or wherever.
I think communities will naturally consolidate and diverge when and where needed. I could be wrong, but it should be interesting to watch.
the UI of Lemmy is hot garbage
Couldn’t agree more until I discovered https://wefwef.app. If you’re not familiar it’s a WebApp interface that’s trying to be a clone of Apollo and it’s made me believe this could actually work.