Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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This 100%. And there are other former-reddit-3rd party apps as well afaik
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Except everyone just uses gmail now
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Tell it to the hosts.
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@Octagon9561 @isaaclyman worse some big email sending services like sendgrid embedded in a lot solutions don't work with privacy enhanced e-mail services.
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Same...though it seems to do some weird stuff like not marking DMs read, or not having an easy way to embed a photo that's already hosted somewhere (and my instance seems a bit conservative with size limits).
Still, it's a solid app, and the only way I interacted with reddit.
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For the android users : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
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The UX for both Voyager and Sync seem really good. I've tried it out on a device, you can scroll before logging in, and when you try to create an account there aren't loops to jump through and a default instance is pre-selected
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Thanks for the tip Photon is great!
I use it with Alexandrite as well. Those alternative clients really made a difference in my experience on desktop.
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This I like, it solved many of the issues. I wish it was the default.
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Well ot kinda was true for the time of the big reddit exodus, there were very active and massively upvoted threads about one instance defederating from another, instances debating on whether they should defederate, beehive publicly wondering whether to ditch lemmy etc
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The reality is this filters out all non tech savvy people.
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Tell them to download the thunder app (it's very similar to many of the popular reddit apps) and just give them a list of the 10 most popular fediverse's to pick from to make an account.
I mentioned this like a year ago. Users will need their hands held to get them to easily come over.
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It's literally in the "Introduction" to lemmy (third paragraph):
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If selecting a server is too much, then directing them to a random on that fits their criteria should solve the problem. Which joinlemmy, joinmastodon, joinoixelfed, and so on do.
If even that is too much, then I'm totally fine without those people as I question what kind of stuff they'll be saying.
And this isn't even elitist. It's not "you have to have the ActivityPub spec memorised" or even know what ActivityPub is. It's like "which email host should I pick". No deeper than that.
If Facebook and Apple have eroded people's brains to the point where such a simple question cannot be answered without freaking out, then we're in trouble.
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Strawman
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My point exactly. How do you function in life if choice is too much for you to comprehend? Maybe people just need a website called Lemmy.org that redirects them to a random approved server and that's it. "UX" problem solved.
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I like how you put that. We really are the ones who survived
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