If the fediverse is to be adopted by the masses, the onboarding experience needs to change. A new user can’t be presented with a choice of instances as part of signing up or at least the process of making the choice needs to dumbed down a lot. I don’t know how or if this can be solved, I just know as someone involved in app development and UX that the current experience won’t work.

My mother would not know how to handle this paragraph: “Lemmy.world is one node in a network of hundreds of Lemmy instances. Before you sign up here, take a moment to explore all the instances at https://lemmyverse.net/. You may find an instance with a regional or topical emphasis that speaks to you! Don’t worry about being left out; Lemmy instances are interconnected so users from each instance can participate with communities on other instances.”

For mass adoption it needs to be so simple that even non-techie older people can get through it without feeling like they might be doing something wrong.

  • Iapar@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    I disagree that we should do that.

    Internet became a shit show the second everyone got a smartphone and the barrier to entry evaporated.

    Needing to put in some effort to participate is a good filter for low effort people and their low effort worldviews.

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      4 days ago

      Not all places went eternal September:
      Some sites/apps had filters to hide low effort people.
      Some had strict rules that were enforced, so even if you were clueless coming in, you would upskill fast while using it.
      Some had a good onboarding course making upskilling a breeze.