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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong.

the way it's going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.

So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.

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[–] dantel@programming.dev 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (32 children)

I'm a very new user who wanted to give this a chance, here are the friction points from my point of view:

  1. The onboarding is way too complicated for the average user. A huge part of this is that there are 100 ways to do it. Before you even can start to do anything you have to investigate and then decide on what and how to do it. And even then there is no guidance at all, you are given options and then you can either go and do some research again or try them one by one. You lose at least 90% of the users here already. It doesn't help that fediverse users try to downplay this issue.
  2. Content discovery sucks ass. My feed stayed mostly the same since I started using Lemmy. I'm presented the same shit over and over again. I'm not sure if it's something that I do wrong, if there is just no content or if that's a side effect of 'no tracking at all' but either way the experience is just bad
  3. Someone in here already said it, but 'Lemmy' is a horrendous name. That alone was the reason why I didn't bother to try it at all for a long time. Only recent events pushed me towards it but tbh I'm not sure I'll stay.

In short the user experience is abysmal.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I’m presented the same shit over and over again.

Do you sort by active? Use hot or scaled instead.

[–] dantel@programming.dev 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, it was sorted by active. Changed it to hot, let's see how that goes. Thanks for the hint.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Active is basically like old forum logic, where new comments will bump it up back to the top. Scaled is my go to view first as it does a pretty good job balancing out communities of widely different sizes, so smaller communities that you're subbed to have a chance of having their post be seen if it's new and larger in upvoter count.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Scaled is great for Subscribed, but I don't like Scaled+All

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Scaled+All is hell on earth, but to be be fair it's not its fault. It's just... what Scaled is there to do. Thus works wonders in Subscribed, I'd argue it even works wonder on local unless you specifically need newest local-relevant content (eg.: local news).

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah true, I generally avoid all until I'm out of subscribed content or just looking for new communities

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I don't use All often

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 5 points 23 hours ago

I usually switch sorting options when I start seeing a lot of the same stuff, or when I get to the point where the furry shit starts to appear. Keeps things somewhat fresh most days.

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