Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 weeks agoThese things don’t affect the average user (lurker) much at all. Ideally you just start with whatever instance and only move if you don’t like it. A new user can’t really know if an instance is bad or not before trying it.
(As long as there recommendation page doesn’t give them an extremist instance)
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right, but that’s the issue. It can give them an extremist instance and they join and get banned and never come back. The instance matters, and they know that intuitively, which is why they have choice paralysis in the first place. We should help them choose by providing information about each instance.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Yeah but that’s just join-lemmy, someone could make their own website that doesn’t have this issue, even without overloading the user with info. It should only show instances that are middle of the road general instances.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, that would be a good addition to the Lemmy ecosystem.
What I’m saying is, you can’t agree that we should help them avoid extremist instances AND say that the instance doesn’t matter.