We just need good defaults.
Sure driving a 2 ton box around takes skill, but we should still make it as easy and smooth ride as possible. Add Power Steering, Climate Control, ABS, Navigation, a Radio etc.
We shouldn't give people a shitbox and expect them to enjoy driving it, especially when they're used to better.
If we don't fix our bad UX, we're going to filter out all non tech savvy people, and create a bubble.
Thank you I appreciate all the input, I won't have the time or energy to drive something like that. I can get behind a cause like that and help push it, but won't be able to lead.
I'd love a place where there is no politics, it might also be appealing to many and I think it should be the default.
We have a slight disadvantage in that regard yes, but I know we can get to a UX comparable to Bluesky and Reddit.
There just doesn't seem to be much focus on it, I feel setting good defaults will solve most of these issues.
Lemmy is nice for me now, but it took a lot of effort finding the settings and UI that I like, people will give up long before that.
Yes exactly!!
The vast majority of users don't like the old.reddit view, else reddit would have that as default.
Not many I'm assuming. I like pointing people to Voyager because it's both on android and apple, and it has a very smooth UX, you can install and start scrolling
My message is often something like
` Checkout Lemmy, it's a solid reddit alternative. https://phtn.app/
If you want a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install `
That's how you create a bubble of only tech savvy people.
We already have good information, the barrier to entry just needs to be lowered
It might not be a bad experience for you, but it's a bad experience for what looks like the vast majority of people. Don't take my word for it, look at the hundreds of upvotes in the post I shared.
There's quite a few things we can do to improve the experience in the current default.
Eg. by optimising it's defaults, turning 'Auto expand media' on makes it a much smoother transition for people, and makes the site look more modern and not like a forum from 15 years ago.
The reality is, our UX is bad else top comments in the post I shared wouldn't look like that, and something needs to be done about it
Lemmy has good UI, the defaults set are just bad and most people will give up before discovering Photon etc.
Something like https://phtn.app/ really should be the default
That's a great analogy, but it's too big a barrier for many, most give up before picking a instance, we should set good defaults and then the users can figure it out once they are used to the platform.