Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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There is a reason such a large part of Lemmy is developers. There's no confusion signing up for the developers. Federations and servers and instances are all crazy jargon to regular people. Although we may not want all regular types here, having some more regular people to balance out all the high IQ techies could make things more fun.
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This exactly. Once I dove in and stopped reading, it oddly made more sense to me.
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Jerboa is awesome, and it's come a very long way in a really short timespan.
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There are people who don't realize that reddit is a website. Stew on that for a minute.
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Somebody will have to host that. Whether it's a Lemmy app developer, or baked into the Lemmy codebase itself.
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Multi-reddits on Lemmy!
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I just wish you had recourse for false (or maybe even correct, but heavy handed) bans, and it's still the largest gathering place for many communities - retro games, queer communities, other adult interest (not just pornography) spaces, local events/happenings, so it's really terrible to just be completely shut out of all of that. Whether voluntarily or not. (In my case not.)
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I think Lemmy needs a higher-level sign-up procedure that hides the complexity of the fediverse. This could be a webpage with a simple, clutter-free interface that handles picking and registering on an instance from a curated list semi-automatically, for example, by asking you 3-4 questions before giving you a suggested server that fits your responses (that you can change) with a button to register right away (and handle the occasional additional sign-up requirements that some instances have).
IMHO, 90% of users will never interact with the "federation" aspects of Lemmy after that, and they also don't need to. I personally don't feel like Lemmy being federated has much of an impact on my user experience day to day.
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I'm sure it'll go away with time, hopefully as more people join and contribute.
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Oh I love tofu. Fried, with a bit of teriyaki sauce. Yummy.
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With discord, though, the "server" part is largely hidden from the user or at least transparent - that's the thing. It simplifies the same concept into something more tangible.
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Endless wars about federations. Ha, so true. Along with switching to Linux and Privacy.
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AFAIK, you're able to see pretty much everything on your instance, but Beehaw did defederate from your instance, so think you can see their posts, but they can't see yours.
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Yeah i have a comp sci degree and it took me a minute to understand the different servers and how to curate my feed and then balance quality vs quantity of posts.
Im capable of understanding but i dont want to put effort into my leisure app, and it seems like nobody else does either.
Good starting defaults for instances and the "everything" front page seems most important. Maybe training people on the front page to branch out by showing them posts from up and coming communities..
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I don't know if I would say itll "go away" with time. More like it will get diluted over time as more people join with varying stances on things.
See I am smarter and better than you so I know this to be the truth.
/s
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Voting being disabled is an option built into Lemmy that the admins can activate, though only a few choose to. I know Blaja disabled down votes but not upvotes.
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The lemmy servers could also provide how much headroom they have for extra users and the selection wouldn be weighed based on that so that smaller servers wont be overloaded and larger servers get enough users. They could implement some of this into the lemmy api itself.
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That's a big reason I liked Lemmy.
