This article is a response to Tim Chambers' recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It's a pretty great read, and I'm writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.

This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.

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[–] transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

"federated next to useless?" nah it's my favorite. best way to find new people to follow

[–] wisdomchicken@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

very curious what server you are on? im on a server with 1k active users, so not big by any measure, and manually counted the federated timeline just now, and it shows at least 50 new posts per minute. like how do you even use that? do you just watch it until an interesting account pops up on there? im very confused by this idea of using federated timeline to find people

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I used to feel that way, but there's so much crap on that timeline, especially when you're on a bigger instance. I used to use it for the exact same thing, discovery. A lot of it is just noise to me now, though.

[–] november@lemmy.vg 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Depends how busy the federated timeline is on your instance. Often it's just a firehose of bots.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I ace the bots, but I am not sure if every instance has this option?

[–] MoreZombies@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

"Ace the bots"?

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 0 points 11 hours ago

Yes.