I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant. The main problem is that it’s quite hard to discover content you want while avoiding content you don’t, Bluesky at least has really good custom feeds that are easy to add (the default feed sucks). Another big issue is the general site layout, it’s hard to figure out how to do things as simple as saving a post for later or how to go back to the feed without being redirected back to the post I’m trying to exit.

Maybe they didn’t see the “Feeds” feature in PieFed? The top navigation menus in PieFed are a bit messy. Although shareable blocklists could be cool too, or maybe toxic?

That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes reading and parsing the site elements unnecessarily difficult (no Lemmy, grey text on a grey background is not good for readability).

I like the Lemmy colors, but maybe it should be easier to change, because they might like the darkly-pureblack theme.

Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

Maybe this is a UX issue of not finding the right feed they would like.

I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.

Again maybe a UX issue of not presenting what communities they could subscribe to.

I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.

The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can’t do them either.

(that’s the “Medium” difficulty)

Lemmy v1.0 is adding the ability to do invites, so maybe there will be an invite-only instance that gets some momentum, that could be cool. Invite sites seems like a cool old-internet type of culture.

The fediverse stuff is way too complicated for me, Reddit is very easily accessible and actually has active communities for the topics I’m interested in.

Of course these are naturally going to be all negative because they’re users that bounced off the Threadiverse, but there’s probably hints to what can be improved

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The only, one who woke up earlier was me...

Tout part en sucette, tout le monde a peur, et tout le monde a peur de tout le monde. Je ne dirais pas que la « civilisation occidentale » est un échec, mais ça n’a pas marché.

Bon dimanche.

I like how this joke works for the supposed complexity of json-ld while the viper pit metaphor can also represent the bickering about it.

Reddit has a bad reputation due to the quality of the platform itself, and the quality of ‘redditors’

Bluesky is a steaming pile of shit if you do not set it to ‘following’, yet again because of the quality of its users

Lemmy and Piefed both allow you to change the colour scheme

If a user is not seeing enough new content, then they should probably look around more. I still use reddit (it still serves a point for distros, gaming etc), but the vast majority of the time I go there, the screen is blank… because I do not follow many subs.

Social media is not the right place for porn

@palomakop Haha, it would! Maybe it could be defeated by making a law, requiring them to directly show the user what data they have access to about them in the cookie banner. And it all has to be visible, so the more data it is, the bigger the banner. 😄 Having to disclose the "partners" (at least in the EU) is a good start, though.

I recently read a piece, I think on Vice, where they identified ICE agents through data brokers, including names and addresses, which seemed like it shouldn't be allowed, legally or ethically. I mean, on the one hand, good use case for once, but what a f-ing privacy nightmare. Glad to live in the EU. There are probably loopholes, though, where they just don't connect the dots inside the EU or something. But at least somebody seems to be trying... 🤷

@Caelumtangi de res! sí, un dels principals motius del grup a Delta Chat és aquest.

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Wow, it's GNU / Burger King!

@smallsco Arrrgh >.<

@spla Gràcies! dir-vos que en casos així va molt bé el grup DC (Delta Chat) de mastodont.cat per comunicar-nos entre tots. El primer moment em pensava que teníem un problema a casa d'Internet 😅

@fesshole no judgement? You clearly never read the replies.

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