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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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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction.

I'd rather join-lemmy (and join-fediverse) were smarter.

Have a series of questions (for join-fediverse add "what service do you want?"):

  • Where are you?

  • What languages do you speak?

  • Select your hobbies from the list below:

And it then spits out 2 or 3 instances.

It's what I'd do if someone asked me directly for a recommendation and should be relatively easy to do.

As we say with someone posting a link to db0 on r/piracy, if you just say to people "this is the instance for you" and it seems relevant then they make the jump. I'm tempted to go to the main subs for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc and just post a link to the relevant instance.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Be ready to get your post removed for self promotion, and yourself banned. That's what I noticed on most countries subs (except Australia I guess? !melbourne@aussie.zone still thriving everyday)