whiny9130

Their UX sucks

Karma is useful on things like discourse or mattermost as a spam prevention feature, you gradually expose features to people who aren’t being spammy. The same thing is true of a user joining a new community on the same site.

Two examples:

when you’re browsing your follows on mastodon, and click on their follows, the list is not true to their follows (because your server hasn’t fetched them).

and, when you first subscribe to someone’s posts, you can’t see older posts (say they’ve got 100, but you see zero).

I’m aware that there are technical reasons (you weren’t subscribed), and open source reasons (nobody has the time to volunteer to fix it), but these are insufficient to help an anxious new user who’s undecided about the platform.

That’s only Mastodon, which has 7 years of refinement. Don’t get me started on the litany of federation-related edge cases of Lemmy’s UX failings.

“value of type java. String cannot be converted to JSON object” is basically every 1/3 post.

Heard from folks the app crashes the instant they opened it.

Reuses comments section from previous posts.

Can’t differentiate search by content vs search for communities,

Can’t just paste a community URL, or paste a post URL into search

I describe signal as a journalism and cybersecurity nerd app. Because everyone who’s serious about either of those two things uses it. The other apps don’t come close.

if the upvotes/downvotes are part of a user feed… you could probably do some crunching on “repeated brigading posts”… but part of me is going… wouldn’t it be interested to make buckets for how similarly people’s opinions line up.

like… “subtract out the folks who just vote no on anything positive with MacOS”, e.g., the herd gets grouped and gets lesser power.

or… “rank a user that usually downvotes stuff in this group but suddenly upvoted it higher” (like neural exhaustion). So the more an account /just upvotes/ and it becomes tired due to the link between that user and those keywords.

same feeling. too many logos in the diagram. each one of these could be a “dev starter kit” image for the particular stereotypes.

folks talked about “you should be able to search by !communityname@instance.name” not working, even if the community /is/ already federated and sharing content (think !technology@beehaw.org) - so there’s definitely growing pains.

You can follow people on kbin, can’t follow them on Lemmy “because it would require an overhaul”

I run the r/kbin subreddit.