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Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Top 10 ( https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list )

  1. LW
  2. lemm.ee
  3. lemmynsfw.com - not suitable
  4. sh.itjust.work - shit in the name, not appealing to the average user
  5. lemmy.ml - power tripping https://feddit.uk/post/12952230
  6. lemmy.dbzer0.com - requires to follow and agree the Anarchist code of Conduct - not appealing to the average user
  7. lemmy.ca - Canada-oriented, non-Canadian users might not want to join as they wouldn't think they would belong
  8. feddit.org - German-focused, https://feddit.org/c/main content is in German
  9. lemmy.blahaj.zone - queer-focused
  10. programming.dev - programmers-focused

I made a more complete analysis in this post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391 (pinned on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com ), nowadays I basically go with:

" Lemmy has 47k monthly active users

Feel free if you have any questions"

Because yes, the USA/EU question appeared during the Luigi announcement in LW.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would suggest something like https://phtn.app/ as an alternative desktop frontend (also has mobile view support)

[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thats very nice actually, can it be self hosted? Might use that as my desktop frontend.

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