1. Exclude explicit software bugginess or missing features
  2. Include experiences or knock-on effects that may have arisen from (1)
  3. Comparisons to Reddit are ok. We know the reasons for the differences, but this is just about expressing yourself
  • oxjox
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    1 year ago

    Wow. All the top comments are about finding / joining / onboarding.

    It’s just super unattractive to join.
    Discovering communities is easily the #1 complaint
    Onboarding is unclear for people

    I genuinely don’t understand this criticism about the fediverse. It seems like people just want to be told what to do. I totally understand that this isn’t a vertical platform like Reddit or Twitter but that doesn’t prevent anyone from participating in the platform. It just means that you need to look for what you’re interested in rather than be told what you should be interested in.

    Multiple communities with the same theme in diverse servers mean lots of repeated information in my home page.

    I’ve commented recently about the redundancy of communities - which I think is a related criticism to knowing what community to join (as opposed to instance). If I’m on this instance but another instance has a community of the same name, which should I join? Both? Meh. It’s not something to stand in the way of using the platform at all but it is a bit annoying.

    Anyway, my one “complaint” is just that the niche communities I’m a member of on Reddit don’t exist here. Specifically, communities for buying and trading things like r/photomarket.

    This is still a relatively new platform. It’s going to take some time for it to build itself organically. It feels to me that a measurable amount of content on the platform is critiquing the platform. I think it would be more conducive if we all spent less time critiquing and more time generating original content - not stuff cross-posted from other platforms. I mean, in general, if you’re searching the web for “a thing”, the results aren’t going to direct you to the fediverse unless you’re specifically searching about something regarding the fediverse. Showing up in search results might be the tipping point that drives more users to join the platform.

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      1 year ago

      Wow. All the top comments are about finding / joining / onboarding.

      Then it’s a solid complaint. A quick story as to why you don’t understand it: I use to do tech support and I’d hear so many coworkers get super frustrated about how stupid the people calling in were, because they couldn’t even do…whatever the thing was. I would make a point to the new hires that they knew how to do this stuff because they’re techies, because this is what they grew up learning. The doctor or lawyer or professor on the other end of the call is not stupid whatsoever…in fact, they’re likely much smarter than the person calling them stupid, they just took a different path. The techie is unable to fathom that the depth of their own technical knowledge is not common knowledge whatsoever and takes the basics for granted. At its core is an inability to see one’s self as more than a standard deviation from the norm. Cheers.

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      1 year ago

      It seems like people just want to be told what to do.

      Yes exactly. Not many people like to figure out how something works, they just want it to work.

      Apple’s success isn’t because it’s the best at any individual feature. It’s successful because All the features just work without having to figure anything out.