ProdigalFrog
@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 3 days ago:
Japan had some killer PC designs in the 80’s and 90’s. But I’d say my favorite is a toss up between the X68000 and the Sony MSX 2
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- Comment on The MSXBOOK Is A New Laptop Based On The Japanese Home Computer Standard | Time Extension 1 week ago:
F1 Spirit is a surprisingly good racing game with a killer soundtrack. Metal Gear 1 and 2 are also quite excellent.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 1 week ago:
Hm, isn’t Airvpn based in Italy?
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- Comment on My current handheld lineup 2 weeks ago:
Yet another reason for me to finally get into 3D printing!
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
I’m still rocking a 2011 38" vizio from Costco. Does everything I need, nice and dumb, as a TV should be. A bigger and higher def TV won’t bring me more happiness, so I’ll be sticking with it until it quits and I can’t fix it.
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- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fair point, actually. I suppose as long as an algorithm doesn’t prioritize engagement at all costs, it could be a worthy addition.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Not a bad idea!
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
As someone who has had to explain to longtime Linux users why and how some arcane aspect of package management isn’t grok-able by the common user, I understand where you’re coming from with that point.
I do think the overall experience could be more intuitive and easier, but if the first concepts of federation and picking a server is too much for someone, I don’t think that is possible to overcome since that’s fundamental to this whole citizen controlled media experiment.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the existence of a second solarpunk instance would negate my experience with the first instance. It would still apply, there would just be another place where that same phenomena is happening for a different group of people.
That’s not to say that I couldn’t subscribe to their communities and get to know the regulars there too, but it would be more norrowed since I would only see the ones I specifically subscribe to, where as with my local tab I see the totality of what’s posted to my ‘home’.
If you personally don’t care about that specific experience that a local tab can bring and think your curated subscriptions is just as good if not better, awesome, more power to you.
But for me specifically, and possibly for others as well, it’s a noticeable difference and a welcome addition to our experience :)
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that the local tab replaces your home ‘subscriptions’ tag, it’s that it’s nice to have in addition to it.
My instance, slrpnk.net, caters to solarpunk topics only, and we’re small enough that it has a tight community of regular posters whom I recognize. In my local tab I can see at a glance just the stuff posted to my community, with my other subscriptions not mixed in and cluttering it up. I also see in my local tab what’s being posted in communities I’m not subscribed to, but will often have comments from our members since we all collectively view our local tab. It’s like a sort’ve town square feel that my all and subscriptions tab don’t have.
I like having access to both.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK, you’re able to see pretty much everything on your instance, but Beehaw did defederate from your instance, so think you can see their posts, but they can’t see yours.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
About the lack of an algorithm: do we really want to recreate the addictiveness of for-profit platforms? Is tgat actually a healthy feature? Perhaps it’s better for society if our social media isn’t as addictive as possible.
And on manual validation for sign-ups: before the mass migration from Reddit, most instances didn’t seem to have validation, and then as it became popular, we got hit with trolls mass creating accounts posting CP and racist images, making it a game of whack-a-mole to stop it. As Lemmy is all volunteer run, we don’t have paid content moderators always watching for that stuff, nor did they have an automated content filter. The main solution is to validate sign-ups so that the moderators and admins are not overwhelmed with spam.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Lemmyverse.net is the best way to search across all instances for communities that would interest you.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
I could see merit to that argilument if the sign-ups process was kind’ve a pain, but honestly it’s so easy to create an account on Lemmy it’s hard to give that too much credence. Most servers just want a username and a password, and many don’t even require an email to verify. If putting in a username and password somewhere else because they didn’t like their first instance is too much for them, that’s a pretty flighty user to begin with, and they would probably leave for a host of other reasons too.
Saying that, a better way to narrow down that initial choice of server would not go amiss, but ultimately people will need to understand that this is all run by volunteers and there may be more bumps than a corporate controlled platform, but the other advantages (if they appeal to this theoretical user) are worth it.
Even with a better server picking tool, and even if they pick a server they like the first time, it’s possible that server has to shut down some day due to unforeseen circumstances, and that user will have to either accept that they have to create a new account somewhere, or decide that’s not an ideal UX and never come back, which would be a shame, but impossible to prevent.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
You can experience each server before making an account, you just can’t post or subscribe. If someone is afraid of creating am account on an instance they may not like (which if I’m being honest is a slightly strange worry, as it costs nothing to sign up, and they can delete the account if they don’t like it), they can spend as much time lurking without an account as they need.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
Different instances that have a unique interest or theme will determine the type and feel of content in your local feed, and can have a tangible community as you recognize names from your instance. That’s the main difference.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Greenleaf is pretty massively exaggerating about the extent of defederation, as only a handful ever get defederated regularly, certainly not enough to call it ‘wars’.
As for UX, there’s definitely room for lots of improvements, especially in making it easier to explore another instances local communities from within your own insinstancethout explicitly subbing to them all.
But I don’t think the very concept of different instances is truly a barrier or bad UX, that other user is just giving lazy excuses for not switching away from Reddit.
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- Comment on Is making user interaction between instances easier even possible in current state of fediverse and the protocol? 3 weeks ago:
Yay! Wonder what caused the outage.
