For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what’s stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊English
    9•10 months ago

    The platforms copied the design of centralized services without making enough adjustments to accommodate the different UX that a decentralized federated system brings. Some things that I think should be standard that currently aren’t:

    1. I want to be able to send search queries to other instances from my instance and have the results displayed back to me.
    2. I want to be able to browse the timelines of other instances from mine.
    3. PeerTube has a “remote subscribe” option where you fill in a little box with your @username@domain and it’ll open a window on your instance where you can follow the channel; I think this should be polished and then it’d be great.
    4. Every platform should support hashtags and instances should be aware of each other’s hashtag usage so the search can be smart and recommend sending queries to instances where the hashtag you’re looking up is most commonly used.
    5. Links to known Fediverse instances should open on your instance where you can interact with it rather than taking you to their instance where you can’t.

    Implement these and the experience would be much better.