Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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When I first read it I thought they were mentioning that as a selling point! But yeah it seems like they're saying it like it's a bad thing.
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That's the feature! Not a bug.
The new reddit design sucks and always has, other than dark mode.
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This is me. Frankly, I'm surprised people are choosing to use the new UI, but I guess maybe they only discovered reddit when it had the new UI.
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You can literally block instances as a user on Lemmy and have been able to do so good quite some time. No need to run your own instance.
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Ah, I see what you're saying. Under normal circumstances, I would suggest to new users to signup on the "flagship instance", but in Lemmy's case… nah.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not certain what content I'm not seeing because, well, I haven't seen it
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I must be in the minority because I post so rarely that I don't sign up when I 'join' the platform, I sign up when I want to post something. When I first wanted to post something, I just joined the instance it was going to be on. (Also because it's queer, which I don't tell you about for consistency). I also don't care that much about not seeing what my instance has defederated. Or actually, not being able to comment on it, because I actually go on programming.dev sometimes, without having an account there. I don't really get it. The fact that my Instance technically requires an application might actually be a UX hurdle, but otherwise, you just click Sign Up, enter email, name, and password, and that's it, right? It could be a UX problem that you miss out on content you don't see, but you also already see a load of content that you're not going to miss out on. Tutorials on how x-instance moving works might be cool though, if they don't already exist. Making them more visible might limit the defederation FOMO.
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Boost feels a lot like rif which I was using and which shutdown made me switch to lemmy.
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The problem is trying to get people into "Lemmy", where they have to understand federation and choose an instance, etc - instead of trying to get people into a specific instance. I know you don't want one bloated instance, but if that was the mission it would be a lot easier to get people on board.
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eh, back when the "exodus" was happening it felt like every second post is about defederation. Nowadays you don't hear much about it anymore, but if you only looked back then I see how you could come to that conclusion.
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That's the thing though, it's the luck of the draw and you might be unlucky and sign up to a bad instance and then it's too late, first impression has been made and the user just goes back to Reddit.
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Preemptively defederating from Threads was widely discussed in a lot of places.
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