ArtificialHoldings

@ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine Lemmy skews WAY to the side of PCs/computers. But the average consumer is almost exclusively using their phone for everything except work and taxes. I’m a digital native and I even find browsing Lemmy to be easier via app than browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention all the domain-specific knowledge you’d need to properly evaluate claims. All the critical thinking skills in the world are worthless if you don’t have contextual knowledge of whatever subject is in the news. It’s just not realistic for everyone to be a policy wonk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is too much information to process for any one person to just use their critical thinking skills to fact check a news organization as large as CNN, much less every major news organization. No, it’s not enough to teach critical thinking skills and hope every person is able to discern bias in the media they consume, because you’re asking for extremely domain-specific skills and legwork that a single consumer just isn’t capable of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you expand that last line? I don’t understand clearly what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These aren’t global fediverse rules, they’re constraints meant to apply specifically to the new user experience on Lemmy only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’m totally fine with just hand selecting starter instances rather than trying to maintain a facade of neutrality. So many instances defederate with hexbear that it’s a different experience and should probably be an intentional choice for the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very inside baseball opinion. It’s like me describing reddit as “endless drama” because I read every thread on subreddit drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of disingenuous Lemmy users in that thread pretending that picking a server is more confusing than filing your taxes. I think join-lemmy should probably hot-list like 6 or 7 servers instead of making you choose via a primary interest, since you can migrate your account later anyway. But I am personally not tech oriented and managed to make an account and find an app without an issue.