We could do AB testing and see what users prefer.
Or at least change the Default Ui to adhere to good UX design principles
AnonomousWolf
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That would help if they had a clue which one was near them.
Default to "nearest" one?
It's closer to that yes, and you don't really know whar a football team is
You could also use revanced and patch the reddit apk on android.
No adds etc.
Email is well established and has incredible UX.
Email wasn't competing with a well established centralised version of Email with a vastly superior UX when it was trying to gain users.
Lemmy doesn't exist in a vacuum
The reality is this filters out all non tech savvy people.
This I like, it solved many of the issues. I wish it was the default.
The UX for both Voyager and Sync seem really good. I've tried it out on a device, you can scroll before logging in, and when you try to create an account there aren't loops to jump through and a default instance is pre-selected
Unless we use one of those as the default UI, the problem isn't solved, people will give up before knowing of their existence.
We need more users for those small spaces to grow, one of the reasons I still use Reddit alongside Lemmy is that there is no 'South African' community on here, there is a very alive and fun South African community on reddit, that alone will make me keep using Reddit.
I'm sure that's true for many other niche communities, for those to take hold in Lemmy we need numbers.
You don't have to AB test all instances, we can do smaller tests.
But yea that's complicated and takes effort, instead we should at least follow good UX design principles for the default UX