Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse
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Yeah also the blocking instances capabilities on Lemmy are a fucking joke
Block an instance at user level? You still have to deal with their users and you see crossposts
Defederate an instance? You still see their crossposts if someone from another instance does it
What part of that counts as blocking? It should be as nuclear as possible, that's what blocking is for, because someone doesn't want anything to do with them.Also I know Lemmy is not private, but not being able to completely delete posts/comments still irks me.
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So one thing I wonder is if there would be some way that when they are creating an account, for them to put some info in- mostly language spoken and maybe preferred country to start and it randomly selects a default general interest server. That might help onboard people easier without everyone joining one instance
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Years ago I did a UX study on Lemmy's frontend, and tbh not much has changed since. Things like when editing a thread, the Save button is multiple proximity separators apart from the text you're editing, making it very easy to missclick cancel. Or in the community search, you can't search on specific instances that aren't yours.
I've gotten very used to the UI over time but it definitely needs a "pain point" passover
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Does lemm.ee have as obvious a political stance as LW?
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But it's not serious and evokes images of a spotty teenager in a basement.
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Lemm.ee tries to be as middle-ground as possible and defederates from no "controversial" instances
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Which in turn is probably the reason why the devs dont focus on Web ui
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honestly when I joined I thought it was "shhh 🤫 it just works"
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Neoliberal is what I’m referring to.
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Haha, I am too
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This was exactly my point! "Neoliberal."
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I am almost certainly not the "normal" user, but the default theme is much better usability wise than the "p" version. The one would have me looking for an alternative UI/app.
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Same here for 99% of the time, Sync for Lemmy is how I see and prefer this type of site.
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I would run one if it was worth running, but for me none of them reach the default level let alone exceeds it. But I guess everyone is different, and it's open source so anyone can see all the code and make it look however they want. So I guess we just really need someone that does frontend design and wants to make something better.
I believe, like I saw mentioned above, that that default theme is also set to change with Lemmy 1.0 release.
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By that I mean the renewal of capitalism over state as economic and general government policy, not “democrat/liberal.” But liberals are neoliberal as they subscribe to that ideology as a fish subscribed to the water they live in.
