
Good point. I don’t have all the answers to this predicament, but I think most of us agree that we need to improve on the onboarding experience.
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Good point. I don’t have all the answers to this predicament, but I think most of us agree that we need to improve on the onboarding experience.
Every time I browse “all”, I have to block a bunch of communities.
And that’s a good thing! I’m blocking communities that aren’t in my language or interest, but the fact that they keep appearing means interests are diverse :)
Whatever they think they are saving, they are spending on themselves.
I agree, but people (read: instance owners) might disagree who gets to be seen up top and who won’t make that cut.
It’s a tough dilemma in itself, I will say. In the end, I think we should move this part of the joining experience until after new users are familar with the software.
So new users land at “lemmy.noob” or something, and when they are ready to spread their wings, they can choose the things I showed above to go and find the right home for them.
join-lemmy.org already has this in a way:
I saw this method on a Lemmy post some time ago. The website linked had an “ad blocker” that wanted me to go to powershell and run some command. I can’t find it anymore (I suppose the whole thread got nuked by admins/mods, so thank you) but it’s nefarious.
I’d take the risk
Yes, and if you join a German-speaking instance as a non-German speaking user, the experience will also be subpar. Hence I talked about content, not language.
If the instance admin is inactive, then it might be best to switch instances, yeah.
If that was a legitimate issue, MMO’s (which also often have servers the player needs to choose) wouldn’t have the userbase they do. Nor would Email have taken off.
But in an MMO, you still get the same content no matter what server you choose. Over here, it directly impacts what content you can interact with based on (de)federation.
Thank you, that makes more sense! I stand corrected.
This keeps coming back from time to time. imo we need an instance or method to sandbox newbies.
My old comment:
A custom feed that allows new members to see a variety of the best that Lemmy has to offer would be a good start. Then, when they are comfortable with the platform and its dynamics, they can customise it further, or swap the newbie feed for their own custom filter (which practically would come down to community subscriptions, I suppose?)
Now instead of making this comment very long, I’ll put in an video game anology to make it a bit more digestible:
What we need is a tutorial area that showcases all the different things that the Lemmy endgame has to offer. Creating memes, sharing news, the art of shitposting, being a lurker, actual discussions vs just scrolling to see the funnies: all these things are enjoyed by different types of people, and before they can reclass and enjoy the wild open world of Lemmy, it would be good for them to get comfortable with the controls and settings in a relative safe space.
That’s not a shadow drop, Nintendolife
Try opening the article!
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I lurked pretty much everywhere except the subreddit of an app that I know a lot about to help users with support questions.
On Reddit, you don’t really have a conversation most of the time. It’s always a competition about who can out-funny the other comments with snarky one-liners and other off-topic comments that are not necessarily unfunny, but don’t add much to the thread OP started.
Next to that, you always had to be very precise with your words and take everything you can into account, or otherwise someone takes a small thing from your comment and uses that to declare you a troll, bot, or just tries to dunk on you because what you said doesn’t cover all the scenarios you could think of or be arsed to write down.
I’ve thought about this before, and I’ve always chalked it up to a lack of compatibility with other online users and perhaps just Reddit culture. The way I view it internally is this:
A lot of people see comments as the end of a conversation. To me, it’s the start of a conversation.
On Lemmy it still happens, don’t get me wrong. But there’s a higher chance of actually having a conversation, and respectfully pointing out nuance and trying to get actual humans to talk about the subject at hand.
Praying for death by snu snu…
Copying over my comment from elsewhere:
The person on reddit used a third party cable instead of the one supplied with the device.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1ilhfk0/rtx_5090fe_molten_12vhpwr/
It melted on both sides (PSU and GPU), which indicates it was probably the cable being the issue.
12VHPWR is a fucking mess, so please don’t tempt fate with your expensive purchase.
Good. It was a terrible port (I don’t think it’s earned being called a remaster) that sucked compared to the original from 22 years ago.
Sucks for those who paid for it though.