Lemmy desperately needs to up the user friendliness of the system, which is incredibly hard. It’s hard to encourage people to switch when the effort to get a somewhat working feed is so high.
I hadn’t thought about it much until now, but you’re right. I check all at times, but it isn’t as genpop ready as, say, Reddit.
That being said, my subscribed feed is great. The content is pretty good, and so too feel the interactions.
It might be frowned upon by some, but a lot of people could benefit from something like a default subscription list from a sample of instances.
Another QOL thing can be the right app or web app. E.g., Memmy and mlmym.org make the UX solid out of the box. A lot of folks might have to stumble upon those bits of info here, though, as opposed to an “onboarding” process.
Absolutely right - Signing up needs to be as easy as signing up for reddit. And same with searching for and subscribing to communities, even on other instances. Your average user wants the technical details of the Fediverse abstracted away from them. Anything beyond that and adoption won’t be what we (most of us?) would like it to be.
Another big part is stitching communities back together. There are like 10 popular memes communities that have 99% the same content, I don’t need to see the same post that many times in my feed.
There should be an All option that shows literally everything that your instance is federated with. I really don’t understand why that isn’t a thing already.
There sort of is, at least I think I get that with Jerboa, but I believe it’s only federated communities someone has subscribed to, which is most but not quite all.
The search sucks, but I’m used to that from reddit. I subscribe from the all feed and that works well.
I think it worked for me because I just had faith (or confirmed) that stuff was working. People threw their hands up because some subscriptions said pending, but it showed up in my subscribed list so I ignored that it said pending.
Lemmy desperately needs to up the user friendliness of the system, which is incredibly hard. It’s hard to encourage people to switch when the effort to get a somewhat working feed is so high.
I hadn’t thought about it much until now, but you’re right. I check all at times, but it isn’t as genpop ready as, say, Reddit.
That being said, my subscribed feed is great. The content is pretty good, and so too feel the interactions.
It might be frowned upon by some, but a lot of people could benefit from something like a default subscription list from a sample of instances.
Another QOL thing can be the right app or web app. E.g., Memmy and mlmym.org make the UX solid out of the box. A lot of folks might have to stumble upon those bits of info here, though, as opposed to an “onboarding” process.
Absolutely right - Signing up needs to be as easy as signing up for reddit. And same with searching for and subscribing to communities, even on other instances. Your average user wants the technical details of the Fediverse abstracted away from them. Anything beyond that and adoption won’t be what we (most of us?) would like it to be.
Another big part is stitching communities back together. There are like 10 popular memes communities that have 99% the same content, I don’t need to see the same post that many times in my feed.
There should be an All option that shows literally everything that your instance is federated with. I really don’t understand why that isn’t a thing already.
You don’t have that? You don’t have a tab that says local, subscribed, or all?
There sort of is, at least I think I get that with Jerboa, but I believe it’s only federated communities someone has subscribed to, which is most but not quite all.
The search sucks, but I’m used to that from reddit. I subscribe from the all feed and that works well.
I think it worked for me because I just had faith (or confirmed) that stuff was working. People threw their hands up because some subscriptions said pending, but it showed up in my subscribed list so I ignored that it said pending.