Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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As someone who has had to explain to longtime Linux users why and how some arcane aspect of package management isn't grok-able by the common user, I understand where you're coming from with that point.
I do think the overall experience could be more intuitive and easier, but if the first concepts of federation and picking a server is too much for someone, I don't think that is possible to overcome since that's fundamental to this whole citizen controlled media experiment.
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Not a bad idea!
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IMO if Lemmy had all the features that old.reddt had it would still be an objectivly worse UX experience. Federating reduces UX, that's just a rule.
We should focus on making the onboarding process as simple as possible like enabling social login (inb4 insecure and not private: let people make their choices), and making it easier to move between instances and understand what instance you're looking at.
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That's a fair point, actually. I suppose as long as an algorithm doesn't prioritize engagement at all costs, it could be a worthy addition.
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Two minutes (and you're being very optimistic here, for someone who isn't technically inclined it's almost certainly going to be more) of required reading on a subject that's just not even remotely interesting to 99% of people eliminates basically all non technical people. Because they just don't care enough to devote that time. If that's the user base you want, that works out, but I'd like people here who can hold a conversation about something other than Linux and Star Trek. It's honestly kinda boring here.
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This is what we call "dipshit energy".
The fediverse is confusing and that's bad. It should be less confusing, and there should be less people making comments like that one. Quit it.
We'll get there sooner or later. Hopefully sooner.
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Gatekeeping at its finest.
I for one would welcome anybody here who wants to come. Rather them than more people with your mindset.
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Agreed, to a certain extent. The internet was a much better place when it took at least a little effort and knowledge to join in and participate. Barriers can be a good thing.
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Pretty much, yes. Images is cached. Video is not. However PeerTube supports P2P.
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I could see a "choose for me" button, kind of like installing an OS where you can go with the automatic stuff or set it up yourself. I think you'd need several instances to get with join-lemmy.org to volunteer to be one of the ones that would sign people up for.
Folks who want to sign up for a specific instance in order to create or maybe moderate a community there almost certainly won't go to join-lemmy.org for that, they'll just go to that instance.
There may need to be a "Hey could we cool it with the fukpolitik' agreement to be on that random sign-up list; I'm not sure I'd drop random folks into ex-Hexbear or whatever.
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It's been a while since I've been on Lemmy, so correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Voyager, which I' using right now, pretty good? You also don't have to install an app, even though the apps on the Google Play store are pretty good.
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You don't need paid mods. If you have a good community people will volunteer to moderate out of altruism, because they enjoy the community and want to make sure it stays good. Paid mods are actually worse than volunteer mods imo, because they don't actually care as much.
