Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse
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Thank you, I will do that and join their cause
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You would still have control over it. It would just remove a barrier to entry.
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Personally I find the UX better on PieFed (unless it's for a part where most of the development hasn't happened yet, so yeah it's hit or miss). See e.g. the tiling view.
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Nothing you can really do about preventing someone from looking at your posts unless you make your profile private, and I don't think Lemmy has that concept.
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Can you explain?
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While this is of course true (and I too have professional experience in this field), my own experience is the opposite. The UX and defaults here are generally better than on, for example, the R-site.
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That's the problem yes, but we can make small changes that will have a huge impact.
It's a very easy change to default 'Auto expand media' to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months.
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I would suggest something like https://phtn.app/ as an alternative desktop frontend (also has mobile view support)
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Not a lot of thought was put into selecting the defaults, all I'm saying is at the very least we should put thought into the defaults that are set.
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Isn't there a new UI in the works for the 1.0 release anyways?
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This looks so nice!!
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Default instances would go a long way
No, suggesting actual websites to people, rather than "Lemmy", would go a long way.
Default instances result in centralization. In recreating the existing structures that, ostensibly, we're all here to reject.
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It's a very easy change to default 'Auto expand media' to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It's also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.
Writing the code to do that is very easy, determining what metrics are actually important and impact user success and what metrics accurately track user success is much harder.
I do generally agree though! Personally I just asked the instance admins of lemmy.ca to redirect
lemmy.ca/r/...URLs tolemmy.ca/c/...URLs as a tiny user facing feature for Redditors coming over, and they did it in a second. -
Yeah, if I hadn't been so committed to Rexit, I doubt I would have stuck around long enough to find a UX that I liked. Just to name one, it'd be nice if MLMYM were a default skin.
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That's my point, it's so many loops people aren't going to jump through.
