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I'm genuinely curious - what do people find confusing about Mastodon? What could be improved?
I was a little confused by Lemmy at first, but downloading and setting up the Mastodon app seemed super simple and straightforward. I've never been interested in short form text content like this, and couldn't find anything I thought was interesting on the platform, but I didn't feel confused.
Would love to hear what people find annoying/confusing as I'd love to be able to help create content etc for anything that's holding people up. Twitter owns too much social/mental weight for people and Meta is no better - would love to find a way to help move people towards something like the Fediverse.
This is, ultimately, a sad truth that, in my bleaker moments, makes things feel hopeless. However, it can be addressed by improving UX, I suppose, in a pareto-efficient way that hopefully doesn't simultaneously compromise privacy, which does seem possible.
It seems this was meant to be a response to the parent comment. Or maybe you've done that intentionally to highlight the need for improved UX 😅
Tbh I don't think it matters all that much. Exclusivity is cool. Plus reddits idea of UX is literally just plastering advertisements all over your feed. Seems pretty easy to beat that out in the long run, it'll just take some time to catch up. They had a 15 year head start
Lol yup, true… definitely unintentional. I'm used to RES and being able to collapse / navigate comment chains with keyboard shortcuts
I wonder if there's anything analogous for Lemmy 🤔 I suppose the analogous thing would be to just directly add these as features to the frontend
Not sure but there's like 20 different apps and web apps in various states of development, along with Lemmy itself. I'm sure it'll come sooner rather than later.
Somebody recommended Alexandrite to me recently
Woah, didn’t know there was even one web app in development as I would have thought they’d just modify the Lemmy source code directly. I suppose that would take way longer to merge and be more controversial, too, than just writing one’s own front end
Nifty