I really like the concept of a federated message board. This is what I wanted for my life. However, Lemmy.ml is kinda difficult to surf through comments and it’s actually bothering me. It actually clones the new reddit, while the old reddit was much better in terms of reading.
There’s an excellent style available through userstyles that might make the experience more bearable. If you have some technical skill and time, you could make one that looks and behaves as old.reddit. I expect something like that will appear soon there as I hear more and more complaints about the UI.