Like many others, I’ve been using Lemmy since the reddit blackout started. A few things I think would help onboard folks more easily or contribute to long term success of the platform(s) are:
- an actual introduction to federated sites and what it means, including what happens if your home instances get blocked by ones you’ve subbed to (if this exists drop a link!)
- a better scheme for allowlisting instances. I noticed the one I registered in got removed from beehaw, and as someone who considered starting my own it’s not clear if that style of instance management is doomed to fail
- more / better apps! I wonder how similar the api is to reddit and if existing apps could be ported over
Any major pain points or improvements y’all can think of to continue encouraging adoption?
The links crash Jerboa for me altogether, but it seems like navigating via the search is a bit better then it was at first (or maybe I’m just better at using it), such that it’s only a couple extra clicks to find the community linked. Still not a great user experience though.
Yeah, it’s good for people like us who are willing to deal with the learning curve and extra steps, but these are definitely annoyances that should be solved