Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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Pick the one everyone else is using. Your friend has a Hotmail? You make a Hotmail. Everyone switched to Gmail? You'll also switch to Gmail. Also for a lot of people, email is just email. They don't even know that you can choose a different provider.
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If right wing (or even other leftist groups) came into ax explicitly tankie community and started arguing with people how would you react?
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And it's not like exporting your subs to a CSV file or something to then upload to your new account on your new instance will work. Different instances will have different communities, so it won't be a 1:1 transition.
I can definitely see the friction for new users if this happens.
We all know people are lazy, so if the friction proposed by Lemmy is more of a burden compared to the inconvenience proposed by Reddit or another social media platform, then people won't change.
It would be interesting if there could be some tool that proposes similar communities on the instance you're joining based on the communities you were subscribed to in your previous instance. Community federation could allow for that linked list that could be reverse searched and served to a user, precluded by uploading a CSV file of your communities so you don't have to keep track of individual users in a server somewhere (which is anti-privacy anyways, and Lemmy imho is pro-privacy).
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I would think and hope so.
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It's okay, if the technology doesn't run them off, the inhabitants will.
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The problem is that mainstream media has less integrity now than it did 30 years ago. The national broadcaster in Australia for example has been infiltrated by right wing people (BTW I don't want to get rid of ABC, just wish it was better). To cut through the propaganda, people need to acquire the skills to find their own media sources. Unfortunately that also means getting technical ability with computers now. Best thing I can think of is helping less adept people to navigate the space. Otherwise we end up with a much weaker democracy. Listening to C-SPAN callers in 2022-2024 scared the hell out of me and made me think Trump was gonna get voted back in. People stuck in legacy media space are getting brainwashed. I wish it was easier to curate RSS feeds for non-technical friends and family.
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Im curious about what the issue with lemmy.world is? It's just the big instance I saw when I started, so I went with that and haven't really had any issues. Nothing is really keeping me here so just wondering what im missing
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Shut down as in someone shut down the website or people telling you that the idea is trash?
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Leftists were banned on Reddit long ago and federation and internet archtiecture and infrastructure is made by generally leftists and libertarian types. So yeah, lots of leftists and libertarian types are around these niche and relatively new (I started using the fediverse nearly 10 years ago lol). Surprise pikachu face when normal people stop using reddit and see leftists since they were shielded from them by corporations, but it shouldn't be that surprising honestly
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Drag has been misgendered (The he/him kind), harassed, and banned from communities on .world for using neopronouns. The admins don't care and do nothing.
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after using Thunder for a bit, this blocking clearly does not extend to users.
The people suggesting it know it doesnt do what you want. They are being disingenuous.
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"Tankie" is how first-world "leftist" describe third-world leftists.
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A lot of users here prefer a desktop environment that's only command line.
Apparently wanting even a GUI puts you in a minority on Lemmy.