Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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I found a beautiful web client for Lemmy that I wish was the default experience. It would surely help Lemmy in gaining popularity.
here's the link: https://phtn.app/
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I stand corrected. However:
Neither Jerboa, the first app on join-lemmy.org and the one by the Lemmy devs, nor Lemmy.World's own web interface gave me this option. I downloaded Thunder, Voyager, and Sync, and only Thunder gave me that as an option. When searching how to block instances, the top results are that you can't (at least on DDG).
So, unless I'm being incredibly stupid right now, I can block instances, but only if I use a specific app, or perhaps choose the "right" instance. That's still very bad UX.
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Cool for you to do a presentation. Feel free to share how it went here afterwards!
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Yeah if it looked like new reddit I wouldn't be here. That site is ass. IDK how anyone can stand to use it.
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The transition to what? Why am i using piefed?
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People these days look weird at you if don't use Gmail so you can't see their Google Calendar invite or some other thing that only works with Google... People are literally pushing tech monopolies.
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TBH, if you can't handle picking a server, please just stay away.
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Well I do like new Reddit. It has a dark mode and works well with different screen/window sizes. Sadly it's slow and equires JS to load the content (makes it slow).
Imo Lemmy web is most of the good parts of old Reddit and some of good parts of new Reddit. Though it's not the best UI. My favorite UI for Reddit is Redlib [1]. It's fast, works well on desktop and mobile, and looks great imo.
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The fediverse being "endless wars about who is federated" is not really true, is it?
Sure not everyone is federated with everyone else, but legacy social media is federated with nobody at all. Federation is the entire point of the Fediverse, you connect with people you want to connect with and you don't connect with people you don't. It's as simple as that.
Plus, do people really want to be on a single platform with everyone else in the world?
Because that's a big part of what broke the internet in the first place...99% of users are going to check out when you ask them what server to join.
I'm so sick of this dumb ass argument...
People who complain about "servers" need to tell me what they think "the internet" is. The existence of servers didn't stop online video games, email or discord/slack from catching on with hundreds of millions of people, so why is it suddenly a problem when it comes to the Fediverse?
Onboarding obviously needs to be better, but I'm going to be totally honest honest here: I don't think these are legitimate, actionable or useful critiques.
These are merely excuses from people who are addicted to legacy social media and who don't give a shit that the internet is owned and controlled by a few rich corporations.
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There are a few .world posters who make two to three posts a day about how much they hate lemmygrad hexbear and .ml.
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We need more users for those small spaces to grow, one of the reasons I still use Reddit alongside Lemmy is that there is no 'South African' community on here, there is a very alive and fun South African community on reddit, that alone will make me keep using Reddit.
I'm sure that's true for many other niche communities, for those to take hold in Lemmy we need numbers.
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Yeah I feel like that low bar and the fact people have to be informed and conscientious to join is part of why the community here seems better at deeper conversations.
Also helps that we aren't worth corporate and propaganda bots yet. As soon as you get big that can start happening and the way some countries are going Lemmy could be banned for not having lobbyist money.
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I feel like most the old school redditors have long migrated, I've only ever heard good things about the new UI from relatively new users.
Lemmy is old reddit, if not OG internet ethos.
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The web ui has this option now. Although you can't collapse threads so it's still pretty hard to navigate
If anything the success or the Twitter ui shows you don't always need a good UX to succeed
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Unless we use one of those as the default UI, the problem isn't solved, people will give up before knowing of their existence.
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This 100%. And there are other former-reddit-3rd party apps as well afaik
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What's there to understand? Does the average person understand that reddit consists of a frontend written in a frontend framework that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JS? Do they understand that HTTPS is used to make the request between the client and server on port 443? Do they know that the request is processed by a back end connecting to postgresql and redis or memcache for faster responses? That most assets are probably delivered by a CDN?
Probably not. And why should they? They don't need to understand how the fediverse works, nor do they have to understand how email works. All they need to do is select a server, create an account, and start interacting. Same as email.
There's no mystery. The fediverse isn't complicated unless you freak out and start realising that the entire internet is more complicated than the shiny, glossy thing on top of it - which doesn't need to be understood to have simple interactions with.
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Except everyone just uses gmail now
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Tell it to the hosts.
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This, the survivor bias is absurdly high around lemmy.
This is my fourth instance because, for some reason, it's extremely hard to find an instance that defeds the 3 main propaganda instances, allows porn/hentai, piracy talk, weed and isn't too pissy about downvotes.Still I am thinking about leaving lemmy due to a complete lack of content for my country other than government propaganda... And I don't feel comfortable creating a community for the same reason and there doesn't seem to be anyone else from my country so... Nobody who cared about it (or who could help me mod).
