If the fediverse is to be adopted by the masses, the onboarding experience needs to change. A new user can't be presented with a choice of instances as part of signing up or at least the process of making the choice needs to dumbed down a lot. I don't know how or if this can be solved, I just know as someone involved in app development and UX that the current experience won't work.

My mother would not know how to handle this paragraph: "Lemmy.world is one node in a network of hundreds of Lemmy instances. Before you sign up here, take a moment to explore all the instances at https://lemmyverse.net/. You may find an instance with a regional or topical emphasis that speaks to you! Don’t worry about being left out; Lemmy instances are interconnected so users from each instance can participate with communities on other instances."

For mass adoption it needs to be so simple that even non-techie older people can get through it without feeling like they might be doing something wrong.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Default way to access the platform for the average potential news joiners is mobile

Voyager, Thunder, Artic provide good defaults.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Eeww, apps.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is wrong with apps? I get a lot of great features from the one I use that I don't get with the web client.

multi-communities
user tagging
drafts
keyword blocking
themes
customizeable ui
etc

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of them space things out in ways I don't like and I hate gestures because I do things accidentally all the time. I can keyword block througb ublock origjn, although I do understand it is easier in most apps.

User tagging is the only feature I feel like I'm missing on default mobile lemmy.

I have also hit app fatigue. Just fucking sick to death of having a massive number of separate things that could be done through the browser.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair enough reasons. If you're doing custom ublock filters and such, you're likely able to tweak a lot to how you want it without any outside help from an app.

I see in you rother comment to someone you haven't tried Voyager in a year. I haven't tried that one recently, but I will say even over the last 6-8 months, so many of these apps have really matured from where they were a year or so ago. Very significantly so IMO. I think Summit is really the sleeper champ of the apps for my use case, and the dev is super helpful and responsive.

To each their own though. I love we have such great variety in UI here. At this point, there should be a couple viable options for near anyone.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I loved rif as the mobile app for reddit because reddit's mobile site has always been trash and the rif experience was so much better. I'm glad there are options for those who want them, and the desire for user tagging might lead me to trying something out eventually.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

voyager is available as a web app if you’d rather use your browser vger.app

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Tried it a year ago and didn't like it.