Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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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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something in the same direction can be found under https://blorpblorp.xyz/
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Indeed, but by now everything seems more or less stable.
There might be a future event when instances decide to defederate lemmy.ml, making effective that there is actually two large spheres in Lemmy
- .ml, lemmygrad, hexbear (whatever their future name is)
- LW, SJW, feddit.org, Blahaj, lemmy.zip, sopuli, discuss.online etc.
Some instances want to stay connected to both (lemm.ee, lemmy.today, SDF), but they're not that many
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I like new reddit. It works well, I just wish I could keep it the same as it is. I HATE Lemmy desktop UI and nearly went back to Reddit because of it. Voyager for mobile and photon for desktop. Honestly photon for both might be better but I'm apparently the 1% of people on Lemmy that actually prefer an app over a website
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You mentioned that Lemmy was insufferable, so I offered an alternative.
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I think this is a wrong mindset, you are supposed to be posting for the community, for the members of that community, not to be seen and praised through all the instances because that's how we got to the problem of getting the same post repeated over and over by the same person/script in all.
Of course that's my old man way of thinking, things should be posted once and let it federate, if it didn't reach an instance someone else might post it there, no need to hold all the glory, karma is just a number on lemmy anyway.
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Whatâs there to understand?
Starting off way too obtuse and disconnected from reality to have a conversation. Later.
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I personally love Alexandrite.app as a UX. I'm so used to it that I get confused when I follow a link and see a default Lemmy instance, lol.
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I donât think thatâs what the person on Reddit is referring to, but judging people by their choice of instance is dumb.
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Well thatâs just a waste of time really.
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Isnt that a lemmy clone though? If the userbase is the problem why would a new interface help?
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a lot of communities on .world are run a lot like the most popular subreddits where moderation of posts is highly aggressive, and seems aimed more at curating âhigh quality contentâ than actually being a community.
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- name squatters mods who never post anything but just stay there as the sole mod because they were there first
- powertripping [email protected]
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Yeah, the UX of alexandrite, Voyager or even the Voyager web app for PC are sublime. I don't see any difference from reddit tbh.
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