Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Ah, The Great Filter of Lemmy, yes.
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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)
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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
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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.
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That doesn't help at all, I'd say. Most people won't ever create communities.
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I wish just like NSFW filter, posts can be marked as Political, and users have the option to block all of that.
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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
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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.
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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
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This comment better explains the issues we have: https://lemmy.ca/comment/14524858
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If you are looking for an app, Voyager is the best in my opinion. It’s totally feature complete afaik
