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Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get that, but we need to cater for the massss if we want to see lemmy grow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do we need to change what current users already like to attract some theoretical new user that might want a dumbed-down view? This is starting to sound like infinite-growth corpo speak!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a lot of margin between 47k monthly active users and infinite growth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

True, but this also isn't corporate America that needs to chase users to make the graph go up. New users will come or they won't, I think chasing them is a fool's errand.

Edit Oops, an important word!