Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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The best reward on a Lemmy comment is an interesting and thoughtful reply.
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"bad ux? bad ui?"
i am a graphic designer!!! i only use linux and open source software like inkscape!! yea let's go!! fediverse -
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Add a bell button and a whistle button.
I think instead of promoting a page where people have to choose a server, just send people to lemmy.world directly. We should probably just get people to sign up there at first and have the ability to migrate their accounts to other servers if they want to do that later.
Having to choose from multiple servers is asking people to choose between a bunch of options they know nothing about. Get people straight to looking at content and posting stuff as soon as possible, once they're more invested, and understand more about the different instances they can change servers if that's what they want to do.
But yeah writhing the code needed to make account migration seamless might be a lot of work so not sure if that will happen.
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More federation is good, but lemmy had a defederation fiasco when everyone was paying attention.
People have enough of that IRL and want a truly global community.
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For real. I've seen people being dicks from every instance. I see far more .world peeps going into a frenzy because their world view was slightly critiqued than crazy tankie takes. Not saying those don't happen, and fuck tankies, but there's definitely more whining "fuck .ml" memes I see. It's just jingoistic bullshit. This is the Internet, nothing you do here really matters. Get the fuck over yourselves.
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Yes it is
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Yeah I prefer to judge people by their actions rather than what instance they're from. If I did, I would assume every feddit.uk user eats beans and toast for breakfast.
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Most businesses also use outlook or gmail
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You need to give people the photon link: https://photon.lemmy.world/
Lemmy has multiple view options, photon is the one that looks the most/exactly like Reddit.
The other view options are;
https://a.lemmy.world - Alexandrite UI
https://photon.lemmy.world - Photon UI
https://m.lemmy.world - Voyager mobile UI
https://old.lemmy.world - A familiar UI -
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"
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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
