Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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I had no idea I wasn't actually seeing the front page of everything
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Kind of wishing for a light mode. I like to keep things light during the day, and dark at night. Crazy right?
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If I understand it correctly you want something like what Mastodon has, splitting "your stream" and "world stream", being the second the default one. Am I right?
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Yep. I came, couldn't get into it, https://lemmy.world/post/1388830 and unfortunately went back to Reddit.
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Whether these are just lazy excuses or not, but let's be real for a moment.
Imagine someone, who's used to go to reddit.com, search for a reddit app in the app store, both of which have the same logo, design, etc... and use their username/password to login and browse the content.
almost every service, that people use for the last decades is based on this specific approach, except for emails. Even the TLD was always .com
Now imagine, how overwhelmed those people might feel, when you tell them "just come over to lemmy".
Lemmy, where? lemmy.com? Here's where you than start explaining the different instances, federation, etc..
the next question will be: where's the Lemmy app? Remember, the unified logo and design? well, good luck explaining that all lemmy apps are de facto third-party-apps.
Now, once they make it throug all of that, the next hurdle that will confuse the hell out of them are the communities scattered all across the instances.
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"Lemmy has 47k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
Pinned post on [email protected]
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You can choose the light theme in your settings
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A solution to this is, actually, more federation. Many lemmy instances could band together by building a front page interface that combined all of the best posts across servers
Isn't that All?
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First there’s the obvious topic of defederation, which makes the “join one server, access all of them” an outright lie.
- https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances blocks one outdated Kbin instance
- https://lemmy.today/instances blocklist is empty
Still those two instances aren't that popular
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I tried to join a community that was meant to migrate away from reddit, but found two duplicates. So I wasn’t sure which one was the correct one. Ultimately the migration failed, even though it was a software oriented community
Which community was it?
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Oh dang, after switching the themes back and forth it now actually follows system settings. Cookies/cache are a strange thing I guess. Thanks!
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Nowadays, [email protected] has daily threads promoting active communities
Also what client where you using for that screenshot? Clients usually show instances after the communities name
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You're welcome, that's probably going to be much more pleasant for you ha ha
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Boost. That was 1 year ago.
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This is fair, however, not ubiquitous and all their servers are expected to place nice with others.
Thank god email is federated, and not locked down to a particular company
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I think, you didn't get my point. Everything you mentioned.
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I don’t really get that either. New users are immediately presented with posts and communities they can interact with, and all of the functions are familiar to anyone who has used reddit or forums. The interface is straightforward and uncluttered, as far as what that contributes to the user experience. Also I have never found federation confusing.
I guess OP is talking about the attitude of personality of lemmy members and I don’t agree with that, either. The 2-3 people on reddit quoted in the post are clueless and there’s no indication they represent a significant and amount of people’s perceptions. “Endless wars about federation” - what? There was controversy for like 1 week several months ago.
