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Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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Small things like 'Auto expand media' being set to true, can have a huge impact on user retention rate.

The vast majority of people never open or change default settings in the social media they use.

When they try out Lemmy etc., and the defaults aren’t great a lot of them will have a bad User Experience and leave.

I’m a IT professional, and joined Lemmy a few months ago, the UX sucked, most of that could have been fixed by having good defaults in place.

I powered through, but I won’t recommend Lemmy to many of my friends or family because I know they will give up due to too much friction in finding the right settings and how things work.

For the Fediverse to succeed focus needs to be put on giving people a very smooth UX from first opening a app or page, to finding enjoyment seeing and engaging with content.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (35 children)

Default instances would go a long way, I know there's a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction. Users can choose an instance later when they get more comfortable with the platform.

Federation is neat but the average person just wants to scroll and chat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Default instances would go a long way

No, suggesting actual websites to people, rather than "Lemmy", would go a long way.

Default instances result in centralization. In recreating the existing structures that, ostensibly, we're all here to reject.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Once people are in the ecosystem it's easy for them to move around, if eg. lemm.ee mods go on a powertrip it would be such a smooth transition for people to switch.

[–] vinnymac 4 points 1 week ago

I agree, a gateway drug is what we are looking for. Imagine trying to learn how to run before you learned how to walk. We are asking a lot of the masses if we want to see user growth here without a simple and easy to understand starting place.

I think the hardest concept for beginners to grok is that they can’t login with one account to all instances. If we were to improve the UX around that experience solely, we would see greater adoption.

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