Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy

AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• abrahambelch@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Agreed. But as long as people don’t actively leave Lemmy in favor of the new service I’d be okay with it I guess. I mean it would still be cool if Lemmy grew larger but hey, we got a nice little community here

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• hitagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think the irony here is that the user-friendliness experience of Bluesky stems from it being a centralized service (in practice). I seriously doubt most people who signed up for Bluesky even understand what “decentralized social media” means.

  I’m not saying Lemmy (and the greater Fediverse) can’t improve, but it’s clear that the biggest barrier for most people is the decentralized aspect itself – the core of the Fediverse – which is something one shouldn’t really “hide”.

  As long as the state of social media usership demands centralized practices, then the Fediverse will forever be at a disadvantage in gaining mass adoption.

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  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We have a slight disadvantage in that regard yes, but I know we can get to a UX comparable to Bluesky and Reddit.

    There just doesn’t seem to be much focus on it, I feel setting good defaults will solve most of these issues.

    Lemmy is nice for me now, but it took a lot of effort finding the settings and UI that I like, people will give up long before that.

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    • kat@orbi.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      See, I just use Thunder client and the defaults are x1000 times better than the official reddit app.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What I don’t get is why not pretend it’s centralized and just recommend a server when you introduce someone to lemmy instead of trying to teach them?

    Oh you want an alternative to Reddit, here, go to lemmy.ca since your Canadian.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is my thought… Don’t hide it, really, more like toss a blanket over that part while people get settled. Most will stick with the defaults (whether a single default like lemmy.world or regional defaults like lemmy.ca), but they’ll get the option if that’s something they want to change later (I do wish there was a way to move instances rather than having to make a new account, that might also help improve adoption… “Just go with this one while you settle in and move when you know where you want to go”)

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• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Text-based forums are a niche. The vast majority of the population doesn’t like that format. There’s a reason no Bluesky has emerged, the appeal is just not there.

  About Bluesky, there was an app that allowed “Reddit view” (so threads with votes). Can’t find it back right now, the search mostly show Flashes, the Instagram alternative, which probably reflects the larger interest for that type of format.

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The web ui has this option now. Although you can’t collapse threads so it’s still pretty hard to navigate

    If anything the success or the Twitter ui shows you don’t always need a good UX to succeed

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• Bz1sen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Serious question here: what is the bad ux experience of lemmy compared to reddit? (except choosing an instance in the beginning, I get that this might turn off a lot of people)

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• 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Easy fix, if it isnt federated I give them a one star and talk about how im tired of ads and corporate influence in my discussion forums so id rather use the threadiverse, prob does nothing but if it gets even one person to google and switch it was worth the 5 seconds it took to type

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  • 3dmvr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I did this for a couples posts that popped up on redditalrs that werent lemmy, they were definitelty alread netuered and ready for ads, worse than reddit

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