Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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Well that’s 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 “high quality content” 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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Cofigure swipes to hide posts and just swipe them out? Idk, it's not hard.
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I’ve mentioned a list with info of some nature a few times, with people shutting down the idea. It always boiled down to “the instances may lie about what their instance is about”. In their heads what their write may be the truth, even if it isn’t. This would leave it up to a third party to make summaries of these instances, which may or may not be agreed upon. There may be too many drastic and conflicting ideologies.
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Good, Lemmy doesn't need morons like these
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Agree. It's not about being smug or entitled or whatever. Getting a simple lemmy client on your phone and signing up for the most basic instances takes literally 5 minutes of reading tops. And that's for non tech savvy readers. If you can't put 5 minutes of effort into an online discussion forum setup, then how can you be expected to put even 5 minutes of effort into a discussion post or in reading an article before commenting?
It's a natural filter indeed. And a good one at that. Keep the short attention spanners who need tiktok level ease of use on reddit.
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Does this extend to users? Currently, blocking on Lemmy.World with Thunder, if I block instance A, and a user from instance A interacts with instance B, I see that interaction.
Mastodon et. al. block everything coming from that instance, unfollows everyone, the whole nine yards. So far, I can only block the communities for sure, and have to continue blocking each user I come across.
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Voyager is just Apollo for Lemmy is why I use it
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Regardless if it was the plan, it's the result.
I can't stand what it has become, especially when some of the most problematic subs have massive influence over the rest of the site, like wsb.
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you will probably stop seeing much of that if you block users that post a lot to fediverselore and meanwhileongrad. They're like the /r/subredditdrama of lemmy
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I still see lots of different emails out there, outlook/hotmail is still huge, yahoo occasionally, icloud in the US.
Among my techy friend circle all of us have either our own self hosted mail, a 'privacy' company email, or something in the middle.
All to say, I don't think it's that uphill of a battle for the very large percentage of Internet users to accept the way federation works.
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An "introduction" to lemmy that's buried behind clicking through vague smalltext, and not any of the brightly colored buttons enticing you to pick a server.
This is bad UX.
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I'm a student and don't know anyone who doesn't use Gmail here... Guess that's the result of Google dominating education.
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It’s the same thing.
Email even has its own version of federation and de federation in dkim.
The only difference is that you’re oftentimes not given access to an email address from your internet provider by default anymore so you’re not automatically joined into the system.
People balking at choosing a server are not showing you a bad user experience, they’re showing that they don’t really want to be part of a reddit alternative.
And the broader lemmy/activitypub/whatever needs to figure out if it wants to be like beehaw and hexbear and abandon the shape of reddit or if it wants to duplicate it and try to compete with reddit.
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Isn't that just NodeBB?
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Hell, it can filter out tech people too. I'm a programmer by trade, but I almost dipped on lemmy because the onboarding is confusing enough. Like, I obviously (mostly) figured it out, but I did consider going "eh fuck it" and dipping. The site is ultimately a luxury and not a requirement, so effort or confusion required to get all started up is also something that'll drive me to consider it not all worth it for some social media I'm not even sure I want to be a part of yet.
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Oh, sure, especially if it's the same few users. It's just mildly surprising to not even run into them.
