Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
-
Sadly you're probably right. It would be nice if there were some load balancing mechanism where restrigrations could be shut for the larger instances where it recognises that it's grown much larger than the rest, and recommend altnerative instances.
-
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
-
Ah, The Great Filter of Lemmy, yes.
-
I think a good solution would be to randomly send people to one of the top 5 instances that aren't very political (What ever that might be)
-
If you have to explain a joke it loses its meaning.
If you have to explain UI, it loses its meaning.It should be self explanatory.
People here say Lemmy's UX is fine, and then give a paragraph of instructions a user should follow to get started.
They should just be able to start scrolling immediately, and if they want to interact they should be asked to create an account, and a instance suggested. -
So now you are telling a user to make 3 or 4 accounts at once
-
I'm sure you've seen some of the bad experiences new users have posted on here.
But I'll summarise
- It's intimidating to pick a instance,
- Once you login the UI is very different to what you're used to and not very intuitive.
- No tutorial
etc.
-
That doesn't help at all, I'd say. Most people won't ever create communities.
-
I wish just like NSFW filter, posts can be marked as Political, and users have the option to block all of that.
-
-
-
-
According to https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy, the top 5 (where top 5 is defined by user count) are:
- lemmy.world
- lemm.ee
- sh.itjust.works
- hexbear
- lemmy.dbzer0
After there's:
- beehaw
- lemmygrad
- programming.dev
- lemmy.ca
Lemmy.world is pretty safe and generic, but it's already huge (173k users vs 33k of lemm.ee).
Lemm.ee is also a safe bet.
Hexbear is totally out of question
dbzer0 is great, but it leans heavily in a political direction -
The people who aren’t here are making excuses to not be here. Otherwise they’d be here.
That being said the feud between world and ml users is pretty noticeable
-
To my knowledge we don't want to filter out non tech savvy people. If that's what we want then cool, leave it as is.
But I don't think that's true, especially not for all instances.
-
-
-
I think we should have a Lemmy landing page, that should help you choose a instance.
Ask you to select a few topics you're interested in, if you want to see political content and/or NSFW content.
And then make a suggestion (randomly from one of a few fitting instances)
Once a user gets used to the platform they can always switch
-
This comment better explains the issues we have: https://lemmy.ca/comment/14524858
