• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      5 months ago

      Well the main problem is that the left path has about a tenth the content.

      And also that Redditors are terrified of change.

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      5 months ago

      Is the onboarding experience any better? I remember the initial process of joining Lemmy felt very shady and not user friendly. That can be a massive deterrent for people joining. Then on top of that having to filter out all the communities that are not to my taste.

      Overall it was a messy non-user friendly experience, but now that I’m here I’m happy.

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        I tried to recruit a friend of mine but the moment I tried to explain instances to him, he zoned out. I wouldn’t call it non-user friendly, but it’s not as simple and dumbed down like other social media is.

        Also roughly a year ago there have been a couple of articles thrown around on Twitter and certain subreddits which wrote about CP stuff going on on Mastodon. So the Fediverse had some bad press. Which is rich coming from the site that allowed people like Violentacrez to fester.

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          Instances are great, but are also a problem for onboarding.

          Is there a single point of entry for people now? I can imagine there being a website people could go to that asks a few simple questions and sorts (or load balances) people to certain instances. This would of course need some way for people to transfer their accounts in the future should they not be happy with their instance. Additionally each instance would need to have some kind of API call for the single point of entry to create the accounts You could even have a simple survey to gauge people’s interests to help them in the community filtering process and present the mobile apps that are available.

          Just some thoughts of course on how it might be possible to improve the users first experience.

      • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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        Kinda feels like the site isn’t developing much at all tbh. I know mods have been asking for more tools for a while now