Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption
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Who gets to decide which instances match that description? Everyone will come up with a slightly different list.
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I think the replies in this thread are doing a good job making OP's point honestly
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Not all places did:
Some sites/apps had filters to hide low effort people.
Some had strict rules that were enforced, so even if you were clueless coming in, you would upskill fast while using it.
Some had a good onboarding course maing upskilling a breeze. -
Can you expand that last line? I don't understand clearly what you mean.
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Browsers are not supposed to be only "html document viewers". In spec parlance, they are supposed to be agents for doing whatever the user wants to do: that's why they also offer facilities for passwords, for example.
The fediverse is a bunch of web servers each with the accounts on it. When I am subscribed on instance A and go on an account on instance B, today the browser acts as a document viewer: I can see what the profile wants to show me, hopefully it has a button that properly redirects me but then I leave the context of the message I was looking at.
What I want instead is for the browser itself to offer me fediverse actions: like, comment, reply, directly from where the content I'm interacting with is. I don't expect browsers to do that soon so the next best thing is web extensions
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I've said it before but join-fediverse needs to ask a few simple questions to walk new users through a decision tree that offers them a couple of instances at the end of the process:
- What service are you looking for?
- Where are you located?
- What languages do you speak?
- What are your interests?
This is just what I'd do if someone asked.me about joining the Fediverse and should help minimise decision paralysis.
