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That’s the problem yes, but we can make small changes that will have a huge impact.

It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.

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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.

Writing the code to do that is very easy, determining what metrics are actually important and impact user success and what metrics accurately track user success is much harder.

I do generally agree though! Personally I just asked the instance admins of lemmy.ca to redirect lemmy.ca/r/… URLs to lemmy.ca/c/… URLs as a tiny user facing feature for Redditors coming over, and they did it in a second.

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- AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Sure pulling the metrics might be a little harder. But it costs us basically nothing to experiment.
  
  Small changes like the one you mentioned is a big win, these things add up.
  
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