Post with 22k upvotes mentions Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit
Breaking free from American big tech is hard, so I created a simple cheat sheet.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40072140
And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let's keep guiding them to better UX
I'm willing to discuss UI/UX issues but that top comment is just stupid.
The first complaint is that "lemmy.world" shouldn't exist, because websites should be dot com. That's not a UI/UX issue, that's just ignorance. As we all know Bluesky has also failed to pickup any users due to its URL bsky.app, you obviously can't have a dot app website!
The second argument is worth looking at, but it's unclear based on their comment what went wrong. If you go to Reddit and search for Brazil/Brasil do you just magically find every community you're looking for? I doubt it. Discovery can and should be improved but this person found an instance before a community?
Part of me just thinks this place needs a natural barrier to entry. Look what happened to the internet when the iPhone released.
Really shows the average intelligence of the average internet user.
As I get smarter, they just stay the same!
I don’t know if we want users who can’t grasp the concept that Lemmy and Lemmy.world are different entities and thinks that all of Lemmy should just be Lemmy.com
I think just having a Lemmy branded app with a proper UX is a good thing but let’s not just throw the baby out with the bathwater chasing people who just want Lemmy to be Reddit but it doesn’t make them feel yucky using it.
Do we have any fun infographics to help educate those that aren't autodidacts?
Not sure if it's "fun", but there was this meme: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21725602
This guide is pretty good https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Thank you for your comments on Reddit btw
I really forgot how stupid some reddit comments are. I do not miss that site.
What if I told you that there are really stupid comments on Lemmy as well
There are stupid comments everywhere but the reddit user is a unique type of user that is infamous all across the internet.
Let’s keep guiding them to better UX
I've been trying the Photon/Voyager approach, the issue is that some people despise Photon and modernist interfaces with a passion, there's a comment on that thread I had to link to old.lemmy.zip
Some people will never be happy...
I think people who like .old tend to be more tech savvy, and can figure out how to find a UI they like
Maybe alongside the modern UIs, you could include a line about the mlmym interfaces.
But then they'll say it's confusing to have several links to the same website x)
In my opinion, most people won't get confused by the 'old' interface being at a different subdomain, especially as Reddit did it themselves (apparently they had new.reddit.com which hosted an older redesign than reddit.com, like wtf!?? But somehow people understood that distinction, so this should be fine) Then again, I could be too much of a nerd and overestimating people :P (insert relevent xkcd here)
btw, does sopuli.xyz have the mlmym interface?
I don't have any issues with the lemmy interface.
I'd rather they don't mess it up to appease people who prefer reddit's interface, old or new.
Someone replied to their post, with arguments and explanations I personally think are pretty well though out.
Fuck that. A slight barrier to entry keeps the Facebook crowd out.
