FarraigePlaisteach
@FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software 2 hours ago:
I could really use some of these. There’s a video showing what they look like for anyone interested www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxcMQ4MKK4&pp=ygULRHVtYn…
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
He’s old and doesn’t have much time left. The really problematic people are all around him and they are many.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
If I understand you right, you’re saying that you support making software like Lemmy accessible for users of all types. I agree completely.
A little unrelated, but “intelligence” is not a singular thing and nobody is “intelligent” or “not intelligent”. Also, because we each have our own limitations, we’re not really qualified to evaluate the abilities of another person since we tend to reference ourselves in doing so. IQ is now increasingly seen as not fit for purpose by academics and professionals of education. And all this without mentioning IQ’s history is in the support of eugenics. So if the experts are abandoning the idea of IQ, we can do the same and stop beating each other over the heads with it. Then we can get on with focussing on accessibility, which as you say is where our priorities should be.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
The whole process was a massive time and energy drain in the end with no benefit. I don’t think anyone with a life would pursue something like this any further. I trialled-and-errored my way to Lemmy.world while I was out of work. Otherwise I’d still be on Reddit.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Championing for accessibility is the opposite of gatekeeping, no? And coding doesn’t solve everything. At the moment, the perfect Lemmy instance could be coded and nobody might find it given the plethora of existing ones. Anyway, we disagree and that’s okay.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
In the EU there is some amount of data protection and privacy rights, so that matters to quite a few people. Commercial outfits handle those distinctions behind the scenes (eg, US users vs EU users get different amounts of privacy). On the fediverse, the user has to figure this out themselves.
Beyond that, I agree with everything you say. Some of the instances don’t even have the name “Lemmy” in the domain or brand which makes it confusing. Or maybe they’re not Lemmy but just ActivityPub compatible. I have no idea. You can also get unlucky picking a “bad” server. I first joined Kbin.social because it had the best UI at the time but man, it rarely worked and totally put me off.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
“If somebody gave up on the registration, how would you know?” Because although I have an account here on Lemmy I can still see discussions on comparable sites.
“If you gave up on the registration, then how are you here?” Because I came back a year later after coming across a good explainer for how the fediverse works.
I’m not going to look at that link.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
If any of that were true there wouldn’t be posts and comments here and elsewhere from professional programmers who gave up on the registration process because of bad UX. I was one of them. People don’t give up on registering here because it’s “scary”.
If you’re one of the many people here happy for this to remain a niche for tech people then that’s different.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trying to say that marketing is empathetic. I’m saying that meeting people where they are at is.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Biodiversity is great. Abandoning confused users isn’t. Those options can still exist without baffling the user.
“Marketing programming” understands the human condition and tries to facilitate people. That part - for all its other failings - is more empathetic than telling people who struggle that we refuse to “dumb down” the process for them.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
“I cannot fathom how the idea of having choices could be considered, let alone by so many people to even make this into a controversy, to be bad design. That’s the very thing that makes federation great.”
Because for every choice presented, people want to know the consequences of each one before proceeding. It’s a well understood problem in sales and marketing. People do not want to put themselves in a position where they have to undo. Companies like Apple do this very well. In computer shops, the reason staff are hired is to help get the customer from “wanting a laptop” to “choosing one laptop”, rather than walk away feeling that they need to think about it more.
“Just look at a few of the most populated sites, and pick one that looks good. The choice makes 95% no difference in practice”.
Maybe if they said that on the signup page it would help. I think it would have helped me. But just because you have a sense of what “looks good” doesn’t mean the average person does. It’s the average person that I want to interact with on the internet.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you’re right, but I think that the issue isn’t that everyone was on one server, but there was nowhere for them to go without loosing touch with the people they connect with there. The fediverse can easily give people an out and they can still stay in touch with the people they want.
“I started out on .world but didn’t like their moderation and defederation practices, so I moved.”
That works for me. But most of us here have been running linux boxes on ARM devices for so long that we have trouble relating to the average user. I met someone recently who makes great contributions to Reddit posts like fact checking and providing digestible research. They’re not tech savvy and I doubt we’ll ever have the value of their contribution here while things are as complicated as they are up front.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Absolute centralisation caused the mess. My suggestion is just initial centralisation. It lets people get active with the platform while they figure out the basics rather than paralysing them with options up front.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Thanks so much! I was using m.lemmy.world, and while it improves most things I struggle with a touch interface on a desktop. Your recommendation is great!
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
“…especially when they have average intelligence.”
People with average experience struggle with the new paradigm. Nothing to do with intelligence and that kind of elitism is the reason I first bailed on lemmy.ml. I would have thought that someone with average intelligence would recognise how many of the worlds problems today stem from people punching down.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Technical aptitude != emotional maturity
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Nothing to do with TikTok or this generation. Most users find it complicated and insulting them won’t change reality. I’ve learned that the hard way from my years trying to convert people to Linux.
What Lemmy and Mastodon need to do is to have one canonical instance that they manage well themselves. Everyone gets signed up to that initially and those who want to transfer to another instance afterwards can. That alone could have prevented BlueSky taking the lead the way it did.
- Comment on See 40+ New Photos from the Star Trek: Section 31 Movie 1 month ago:
I thought that was Nana Visitor in the picture but I was wrong. Damn, I was enthusiastic there for a moment!
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 months ago:
A rocket could lift 100-150 tonnes of trash. We have about 60 billion tonnes of trash.
- Comment on Static site generator for an idiot who doesn't want to learn a new templating language just to have a blog? 3 months ago:
I’m planning on porting my Wordpress site to this. I haven’t used it yet but based on what I’ve read it will be easier than Hugo.
- Comment on Review: Nana Visitor’s ‘Star Trek: Open A Channel: A Woman’s Trek’ Is The Book I’ve Been Waiting For 4 months ago:
I see sellers saying estimated delivery time is mid-2025 if I order now. Should I wait until supply improves? I do want the hardback.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
I don’t tell anyone I use this site in case they come across that stuff first. I just say I use a site “similar to Reddit”. I’m surprised that they don’t ask me the name but most of my friends don’t spend so much time online.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
Thank you again for the response. The summary is very helpful too.
It looks like I don’t need the reverse proxy, since the sensitive services* support authentication and HTTPS.
I would need the lighttpd service to be available over unsecured HTTP too, but if that’s not possible I could always use a different subdomain.
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- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Launching in a week 4 months ago:
“The Chinese spying” - As opposed to the American spying?
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
That is such a clear explanation and makes a lot of sense, thank you again.
Since the services I’m interested in serving are authenticated then it sounds like HTTPS is what I need (which is what originally made the most sense to me). That’s a relief. I just need to figure out how to have separate HTTP and HTTPS services hosted from the one ARM service.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
Thanks! Is the point of reverse-proxying your public-facing services to make them private?
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
Thank you for the very informative reply.
The HTTP and Gemini services are for vintage clients, but I would like the reverse proxy to keep my media collection private (and maybe SSH and SMB too). So I’m serving to modern clients in the case of reverse proxy. I was told that port forwarding is no longer considered secure enough and that if my media gets publicly exposed I could be liable for damages to license holders.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
Linux running HTTP and Gemini servers. This is fine from home using port forwarding and afraid.org’s dynamic DNS.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
That’s reassuring. Thanks, I was struggling with the concept and where to start but I should be fine now since I’m handy enough with a terminal.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port? 4 months ago:
Wonderful. Thank you!