I told somebody I know who knew about Reddit’s API changes about Lemmy. He has a master’s degree in Computer Science and works as a software engineer. But then, he told me that it’s too confusing to get into, even for someone like him. This is great feedback and I hope that these issues will be fixed in the coming months.

  • Spzi@lemmy.click
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing your story! Anecdotes like these can help to make it more user centered.

    And now that I’m actually using the fediverse, it’s painfully obvious that I didn’t need to know anything that Lemmy was so intent on explaining to me. I log in, I see stuff, I click, I comment. I see a group I’m interested in, I click on the group name, and I click “Subscribe”. Do I understand how all these places connect together? Not in the slightest. But I also don’t have to.

    Exactly! Those who do want to know will find ways to learn.

    For me personally, it’s also much easier to learn when I’m in a context where I can apply the knowledge. That is definitely long after registration.

    I can imagine how this technical welcome text came to be. Hard working people spent their free time to make all this possible, and acquired all the knowledge necessary. It was probably very well intended to share this knowledge with people who join. But most of them have a different focus.

    There are some QOL things I’d like to have (like the thing about links you mentioned, and a way to force Beehaw to stop automatically scrolling my feed as more stuff gets added, and the ability to turn on “open links in a new tab” by default)

    Haha, we have the same wishlist :)