Comment on Please don't repeat the same mistake as Linux
mathlad@lemmy.world 1 year agoOf course I don’t want Thread. I’m just saying the user is being bombarded with information at the first step, which is bad product design.
Comment on Please don't repeat the same mistake as Linux
mathlad@lemmy.world 1 year agoOf course I don’t want Thread. I’m just saying the user is being bombarded with information at the first step, which is bad product design.
elekitty@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t disagree that the Fediverse has an image problem; the sign-up stage could be killing legitimate interest from the average user - I found the instances confusing too when starting out on Mastodon and Lemmy.
But obviously I don’t think anybody wants a Threads-type solution.
Maybe, to add on to what u/Die4Ever said about pointing users to an instance, the solution could be to have some sort of sign-up page that isn’t tied to an instance. Using a bunch of user-selected inputs (e.g. location, interests, etc.), it selects the best matching instance and the account is created on that instance. This could relieve the confusion at sign-up.
IDK just spitballing.