Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse
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But it's not serious and evokes images of a spotty teenager in a basement.
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What "obvious" political stance might that be?
To me, it's "somewhere on the progressive side of the median" but I'm almost expecting you to say "fascist" or something, given the extent of America's polarization.
Another thing: in popular communities the comments are coming from all over, so without keeping a mental tally of everyone's usernames I find it's getting quite hard to pin down any particular instance's biases.
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A geographically based default is a great idea.
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I always use an app so I barely interact with the web ui
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Lemm.ee tries to be as middle-ground as possible and defederates from no "controversial" instances
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Which in turn is probably the reason why the devs dont focus on Web ui
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won’t recommend Lemmy to many of my friends or family because I know they will give up
Yeah, when I first started out here, my experience was like this:
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I went to the join Lemmy page, then clicked to show all servers. Then waited. And waited. Then I went to bed.
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By the next morning, the list of servers had managed to load. I spotted one that was advertised as "recommended for users to join to reduce load on the Fediverse", which seemed like a good idea after seeing how even the join page was battling to load.
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Found out that the server I joined seemed to have all sorts of issues loading content. And was apparently de-federated from a bunch of instances that align with my interests. So search results were showing me little to nothing in regards to queer communities for example, only dead communities.
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Signed up on world instead and encountered multiple posts that said they had comments but loaded nothing. Found out that there were no languages selected in my settings. So I selected 'undefined', scrolled down, selected 'English', then saved.
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I was still missing a bunch of posts after that, so I went back to settings and saw that 'undefined' was deselected again. That's when I realised that you have to ctrl click each language you choose or else it just deselects the previous language that you clicked on.
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Finally success! 3 or 4 days later. And now I'm here.
I would love to recommend Lemmy to the few people I know who use Reddit. But I can't see any of them trying without just giving up and going back to the place where all you need to do is sign up and hey presto, content to look at and interact with.
I have a feeling that even the process of choosing an instance would probably put them off. I could give advice but there's only so much I could do or explain without being there in person helping them. If they have to read walls of text explaining how to get started, it would probably end there.
I'm not sure what the solution is though, or if there even is one. It might just be a little bit like trying to recommend Linux to people who just want to be able to push a button and go. Which is the majority, based on what I've seen.
Also just one last thing and something that has been discussed to death. There's just not enough content here yet for the average person to see any reason to switch over from the place with all the content.
And on that note, recommending this place to people that I know in real life would be too risky right now that they would see my account and figure out who I am. Because there isn't a crowd of a million people to slip into and disappear here. And this isn't Facebook. I don't want people to know about the very personal things I sometimes say on anonymous social media.
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honestly when I joined I thought it was "shhh 🤫 it just works"
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Neoliberal is what I’m referring to.
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Haha, I am too
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This was exactly my point! "Neoliberal."
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I am almost certainly not the "normal" user, but the default theme is much better usability wise than the "p" version. The one would have me looking for an alternative UI/app.
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Same here for 99% of the time, Sync for Lemmy is how I see and prefer this type of site.
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I would run one if it was worth running, but for me none of them reach the default level let alone exceeds it. But I guess everyone is different, and it's open source so anyone can see all the code and make it look however they want. So I guess we just really need someone that does frontend design and wants to make something better.
I believe, like I saw mentioned above, that that default theme is also set to change with Lemmy 1.0 release.
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By that I mean the renewal of capitalism over state as economic and general government policy, not “democrat/liberal.” But liberals are neoliberal as they subscribe to that ideology as a fish subscribed to the water they live in.
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At heart, liberalism just means putting the individual before the collective. So there can be lots of varieties of liberal. But a debate on terminology will quickly get quite boring. From what I can tell, this community is hardly even liberal, let alone neoliberal. That was my point. It seems that people are seeing in others the ideologies they want to see.
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Since the project is already okay with Github, perhaps a set of polls in Github with this feature, linked far and wide in Lemmy.
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- I was still missing a bunch of posts after that, so I went back to settings and saw that 'undefined' was deselected again. That's when I realised that you have to ctrl click each language you choose or else it just deselects the previous language that you clicked on.
This actually took me multiple months to figure out, Lemmy felt like a ghost town, now it feels like a small town at least
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These things are so important to get right.
We should address them, we're likely losing so many users because you're average person isn't going to spend more than 10min to figure it out, definitely not 4 days -
I get that, but we need to cater for the massss if we want to see lemmy grow
