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That’s a really long AI post that I’m not reading.
Most of these concerns are being alleviated by all the work @nutomic@lemmy.ml is putting into join-lemmy.org , which is our centralized onboarding site.
If you have suggestions there, you can open up issues on https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site
I’d highly recommend you actually read it. Once you look past the LLM-ish phrasing, it quickly becomes clear that the actual information contained is human-made with a great amount of valuable thought put into it.
I’ve been here for a long-time (go and check if you’d like). There wasn’t a single thing in that post that made me think the author hasn’t understood the principles of the fediverse that make it so valuable or reasoned wrong about them – quite the opposite.
This post idenifies many (if not most) of the major problems that I have had with Lemmy over the years. The onboarding improvements you’ve seemed to have at least glanced at are just the tip of the iceberg.
I use Lemmy despite of these limitations but I am also a technical person with quite a bit of tolerance for such technological pain. The high-level improvements proposed here would meaningfully diminish these; allowing less technologically capable or tolerant people to benefit from Lemmy too.This is actual UX requirement engineering.
If broader (and less technical) user adoption is a goal of the Lemmy project, I’d consider the vision outlined in this post to possibly be one of the most valuable non-technical contributions to Lemmy as a whole.
Seriously.First of all, Lemmy is open source. If you or anyone else wants to improve things, please open issues with concrete suggestions, or better yet make a pull request.
The linked post also has various factual errors, not sure if AI hallucinations or the author was using older versions.
The first 30 second: Stop explaining federation up front
I changed this on join-lemmy.org a few days ago. Maybe its not reflected in other language translations yet.
Feeds: Lemmy needs content gravity, not just content
Not really sure what these mean, would have to see concrete examples of these supposed problems.
Search: “Technically present” isn’t enough
Search already shows communities first.
Portability: Lemmy’s killer feature new to feel real
Data migration between instances has been implemented for a long time.
I think typically upset users will say things that aren’t accurate, but there’s still value in listening to which sections they’re complaining about
Pretty tiring to see complaints like “there are four equally named communities in different instances which one real bwah” as if Reddit never has had forking within their subreddits.
I haven’t been a moderator for any community on Lemmy, so I don’t know if this feature already exists or not, but I think it would be very useful for moderators to be able merge communities. Users from the old communities should be automatically subscribed to the newly merged one, while the old communities gets removed.
This requires some way for mods to send merge request to mods in other communities, and for those mods to accept that request if they want to.
Every unique post should of course remain unchanged in the new merged community, with all its votes and comments intact. Duplicate posts however should always get merged if they belong to the same user, meaning that now the merged post will likely have more comments and votes than any of the posts it was merged from.
There should also be an option for mods to move a community to a different server.
With this, we can make Lemmy much easier to navigate for it’s users by merging multiple similar communities while also increasing the activity in those merged communities since they will now have more users.
Since Lemmy is still growing, a lot of the infrastructure isn’t in place yet. This means communities will exist on servers available at the time of their creation rather than the more suitable server for that community that might show up in the future. Ability to migrate communities (and users) from one server to another is essential for Lemmy to stay decentralised.
