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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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

More like the Sean Tilley’s dream custom frontend wish.

I thought he would talk about text to speech, alternate text, auto describer, voice chat, etc.. Instead I read what Sean wants his interactions with SNS to look like. I want even custom profile music+radios! Here’s how my lemmy profile is supposed to sound like!

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, no, this was just responding to a critique on UX shortcomings, and highlighting how different efforts could solve various problems.

It sounds more like you're talking about one of my previous blog posts, where I was talking about a super-flexible frontend that's basically a pagebuilder. Make no mistake, I would love to see custom profile music and radios! And I agree that accessibility needs to be way better!

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

critique on UX shortcomings, and highlighting how different efforts could solve various problems

Which are solvable by creating a customized SNS frontend.

Lemmy is a community first centric ActivityPub network, thus most frontend tailor UX for community engagement, and not SNS.

Similarly Peertube is for videos, thus the UX will tailor for videos centric experiences.

What you detailed was a SNS tailored UX, not a community or video one.