Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
Yeah, I loved rif as the mobile app for reddit because reddit’s mobile site has always been trash and the rif experience was so much better. I’m glad there are options for those who want them, and the desire for user tagging might lead me to trying something out eventually.
Most of them space things out in ways I don’t like and I hate gestures because I do things accidentally all the time. I can keyword block througb ublock origjn, although I do understand it is easier in most apps.
User tagging is the only feature I feel like I’m missing on default mobile lemmy.
I have also hit app fatigue. Just fucking sick to death of having a massive number of separate things that could be done through the browser.
Tried it a year ago and didn’t like it.
Easily switching is the real hurdle, because there are a massive number of reasons that someone would want to switch. For example I started on kbin and switched when the instance died.
Also everyone wants different driving experiences, the driving experience varies widely from country to country and state/province to state/province, and everyone wants different features and capabilities in their cars.
Cars are a great comparison, although there are also people who don’t drive for a wide variety of reasons…
Eeww, apps.
Unexplained choices are extremely frustrating and cause confusion. It would be awesome if people could magically choose the right instance for themselves without being aware that they are making a choice, but that just isn’t realistic.
Choosing was the only thing that was difficult about joining Lemmy, and it was difficult because I did understand federation and also understood that the feed and moderation would differ from instance to instance.
Honestly the only thing I can think of to make the experience better would be having the ability to preview the feeds from different instances with your settings applied and an easy way to move account settings to a new instance.
May be part deliberate, but could just be super tuning to what they know.
It is deliberately handling things in a way that works ‘better’ in a way that doesn’t follow standards, and has been common with whatever browser has the largest proportion of users for a long, long time.
The core idea of having recommended themes for buttons is great, especially if it leads to communication between devs and group concensus so the best ones rise to the top even if not everyone follows the recommendations.
I do think having recommended thematic icons would be great, and the Hot example is on point for all three. The fact that new and old use very similar icons between the three apps is both understandable and would be annoying if trying out more than one.
I’d go for the nuclear option.
the overwhelming bulk of the internet is made up of idiots
Which makes sense because they are just regular people who are, unsurprisingly, mostly idiots.
It was about growing the user base so more data could be harvested, not about the connections being made.
So not closed off as in non-federated, just invite only? So a barrier like the ones that have applications, but based on something other than fiktering who joins the community?
Not only is that counter to the entire point of federation, but invite only approaches only works for closed systems. Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.
Using invites as in outreach to spread awareness without being a silly restriction, sure. Maybe aim at getting people’s interest by promoting some server. But exclusive invites makes zero sense. At best it might work on people who are already here who want a very specific server in their name, not attract new users.