Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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We could do AB testing and see what users prefer.
Or at least change the Default Ui to adhere to good UX design principles
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The majority wants better UX (look at up vote ratio of comments)
A fair amount of users want to gatekeep lemmy to only tech savvy people.
BeCaUsE fUcK dUmB NoRmIeS WhO CaNt FiGuRe It OuT, iTs JuSt LiKe EmAiL
There's a lot of us who just want better on boarding and defaults, it's not a lot to ask.
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It doesn't keep dumb people out, it keeps non tech savvy people out, I've seen extremely immature people on here
I'd pick a mature user over a tech savvy user any day.
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I don't think reddit admin will lift the suspension. So I can't post or comment. No point.
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Sorry, that's more than one sentence.
person you're saying that to: "So much words, very explaining!" runs away
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Although, I think the answer to the barrier to entry is to be less concerned with making federated services feel like centralized apps, more concerned with rebranding server select as the advantage that it actually is. Educate those people.
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So does old reddit but its also the only version of the site I find usable.
UX people can have absurdly lopsided priorities. -
League of legends back when I used to play.
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Is there even a point to which one you pick? I just picked .kbin because I liked the UI, and when that fell apart I moved to .world mostly at random.
Is there really a large difference between them?
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Which of the seven primary UX design principles would you like to complain about?
Give me some details here.
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It seems like Lemmy should offer really easy research data for people to back these claims up. Like just counting “Lemmy sucks” vs “Lemmy is awesome”
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That's exactly what I did, lol. Kbin seemed intriguing but didn't last. I did try to look and get an idea about different lemmy instances but found very little info about any of them except for the 2 or 3 "infamous" ones, so I just went with .world, which seems fine to me.
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Unfortunately yes. And there is no going back.
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There was a lot of debate about this when the reddit exodus happened in 2023. I initially joined then and have stuck around since. Something that was said a lot back then that I agree with is that Lemmy doesn't have to compete with reddit. It's alright for this corner of the internet to exist and not be the single dominant one.
If someone makes a reddit clone somewhere else with more liberal admins, good for them. I wouldn't be going there. The fact that Lemmy is sectioned into servers is part of the appeal. I'm glad that I can be part of a server with very progressive administration. I would never get this level of moderation and support from any other social media. I'm fine with that meaning that uninformed people who just want to doom-scroll are less likely to come here.
We have seen growth periods time and again when problems arise with private social media companies. Each time, a little more people from the initial wave join for good. I think that's fine. Most lemmy servers are run for free by people who just believe in what we're doing here. We can always add more servers, but we can't handle the kind of traffic that reddit handles. We're entirely dependent on dedicated people investing large amounts of their time to create and maintain these spaces for us.
