Submitted 2 months ago by AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world
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This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.
Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.
What can we do?
It’s worse than reddit. It’s more liberal.
Literally in this thread is another person calling it too left and another calling it too right.
You notice the things you don’t like more. Political ideology is always going to have a spread the problem is the argumentative user base and user self superiority.
Oh, cool, a new account to block.
Oh cool, no one cares
Good, Lemmy doesn’t need morons like these
Lemmy desperately needs to get rid of toxicity of this kind.
It has become a more hostile place, and this negatively affects the experience for everyone, including the OGs.
And yes, if you want to have more lively conversations, you need more people. If you need more people, you should stop calling them morons and help them figure it out in baby steps. Don’t make it harder than it already is.
I don’t want to have conversations with children.
TBH, if you can’t handle picking a server, please just stay away.
The reality is this filters out all non tech savvy people.
It’s okay, if the technology doesn’t run them off, the inhabitants will.
Facebook has servers all over the world; there’s not just one Facebook server although it appears to users like that. What would be the effect of asking (potential) Facebook users which server they would like to join?
In a somewhat related question, does anyone know how the extra-instance account transfer request is going? Not sure where to look to find out.
extra-instance account transfer request is going?
You mean settings or content?
Settings have been exportable for a while now.
Content cannot be and probably never will. Even Mastodon doesn’t allow it:
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.
Thank-you.
I was hoping that the content would be id linked to a user id so that moving an account would remain linked to the content if moved between instances.
It’s not an inconceivable expectation for when instances close down or people find that the instance doesn’t suit them.
Is that the case?
Sounds like a skill issue to me.
You did it, you saved Lemmy
And? We want all kinds of people on Lemmy not just ‘skilled’ people
Tell them that if you join any Lemmy instance (e.g. Marxist-Leninist instance of Lemmy (not Hexbear)) and if you ignore some stuff on the instance, then it’s a pretty compelling experience.
Yep. I came, couldn’t get into it, lemmy.world/post/1388830 and unfortunately went back to Reddit.
Nowadays, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca has daily threads promoting active communities
Also what client where you using for that screenshot? Clients usually show instances after the communities name
Boost. That was 1 year ago.
I would hundred percent agree with that! Lemmy we need a app/website with a better UI
We have a good looking UI try Summit or Thunder for Lemmy for app and phtn.app for Web
Lemmy is too right wing to serve as a good Reddit replacement. The queer communities on Reddit don’t want to move here because their members will be harassed.
right wing?
Yeah, it’s full of tankies and transphobes.
Political literacy classes are available online… the idea of anybody thinking Lemmy is right wing (whether it’s code or the majority of its user base) is hilarious and a bit sad at the same time.
Spacetime is relative. If we’re putting directions on politics, then politics has to be relative too.
IMO if Lemmy had all the features that old.reddt had it would still be an objectivly worse UX experience. Federating reduces UX, that’s just a rule.
We should focus on making the onboarding process as simple as possible like enabling social login (inb4 insecure and not private: let people make their choices), and making it easier to move between instances and understand what instance you’re looking at.
Multi-reddits on Lemmy!
Well yeah, which server do they want to join? Maybe sample servers that reset every day would be useful?
Love old.lemmy.world
For me, a major issue isn’t even the UI. It’s federation control. On Mastodon & co, I can mute entire instances, cutting out A LOT of bullshit. On Lemmy, if I want that kind of control, I need to run my own instance. Doable, but kinda overkill.
It’s one thing to hide individual subreddits on a centralised platform. It’s another thing entirely to have many sites building a big platform, with the same communities duplicated with different rules and followings. That’s just a game of wack-a-mole at that point.
And if I don’t like the instance’s communities, chances are I don’t want to interact with its users either, leading to even more wack-a-mole.
You can literally block instances as a user on Lemmy and have been able to do so good quite some time. No need to run your own instance.
I stand corrected. However:
Neither Jerboa, the first app on join-lemmy.org and the one by the Lemmy devs, nor Lemmy.World’s own web interface gave me this option. I downloaded Thunder, Voyager, and Sync, and only Thunder gave me that as an option. When searching how to block instances, the top results are that you can’t (at least on DDG).
So, unless I’m being incredibly stupid right now, I can block instances, but only if I use a specific app, or perhaps choose the “right” instance. That’s still very bad UX.
piefed.social has user-level muting similar to Mastodon
Does this extend to users? Currently, blocking on Lemmy.World with Thunder, if I block instance A, and a user from instance A interacts with instance B, I see that interaction.
Mastodon et. al. block everything coming from that instance, unfollows everyone, the whole nine yards. So far, I can only block the communities for sure, and have to continue blocking each user I come across.
I totally disagree.
Kind of wishing for a light mode. I like to keep things light during the day, and dark at night. Crazy right?
You can choose the light theme in your settings
Oh dang, after switching the themes back and forth it now actually follows system settings. Cookies/cache are a strange thing I guess. Thanks!
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I personally love Alexandrite.app as a UX. I’m so used to it that I get confused when I follow a link and see a default Lemmy instance, lol.
It’s really no more difficult than filling out a job application or something.
Something else to keep in mind is that most Redditors nowadays (like Twitter and Bluesky users) are mobile users. I think a lot of Lemmy mobile apps have a good UI and solve that problem. However, it’s hard to point new users at a single website/app/etc to join. Bluesky does that. Obviously, that’s bad for decentralization, but Bluesky is also still a beta protocol that’s headed toward decentralization at some point. Their single instance was necessary for them at the start.
When a new/small social media platform that acts as an alternative of a bigger platform pops up, one of the common topics on the alternative are people talking about how it’s better than the old place and/or just trashing the old place. Eventually, they outgrow that (assuming that platform survives). I feel like that’s happened with Bluesky. Browsing it, everyone seems to be talking about their own usual topics now, and I see very few posts calling out Twitter or comparing Bluesky to Twitter nowadays.
Lemmy still feels like it’s in that “bash the old place” stage to me. Maybe ~20% or posts I see are talking about Reddit or talking about Lemmy in relation to Reddit. It’s annoying.
Maybe ~20% or posts I see are talking about Reddit or talking about Lemmy in relation to Reddit. It’s annoying.
People talk about Reddit now due to the influx last week.
Usually Reddit isn’t that discussed.
FossilVerbrechen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
phtn.app client is amazing. looks modern and beautiful.
Can recommend