shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoWhat's Mastodon precious?lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1945arrow-down154
arrow-up1891arrow-down1imageWhat's Mastodon precious?lemmy.dbzer0.comshittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 hours agoWhenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail. The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project. It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·47 minutes agoIf bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?
minus-squareBongles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 minutes agoThe way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.
Whenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail.
The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project.
It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.
If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?
The way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.