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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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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What "obvious" political stance might that be?

To me, it's "somewhere on the progressive side of the median" but I'm almost expecting you to say "fascist" or something, given the extent of America's polarization.

Another thing: in popular communities the comments are coming from all over, so without keeping a mental tally of everyone's usernames I find it's getting quite hard to pin down any particular instance's biases.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neoliberal is what I’m referring to.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was exactly my point! "Neoliberal."

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By that I mean the renewal of capitalism over state as economic and general government policy, not “democrat/liberal.” But liberals are neoliberal as they subscribe to that ideology as a fish subscribed to the water they live in.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At heart, liberalism just means putting the individual before the collective. So there can be lots of varieties of liberal. But a debate on terminology will quickly get quite boring. From what I can tell, this community is hardly even liberal, let alone neoliberal. That was my point. It seems that people are seeing in others the ideologies they want to see.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I’m not debating terminology I just thought based on your comment that your mistakenly thought neoliberal meant liberal not new liberalism. It’s confusing they use the same root :)

I disagree. I mean LW is neoliberal in they see keeping the western gov status quo as good.