wow I can't believe people (me) used to exist on the internet without discoverability algorithms
seems impossible
you have to like make an account and sometimes make decisions about what to look at its crazy
I remember the days of browsing the Yahoo catalog and just searching for Pokemon or Dragonball Z and looking at every website, eventually stumbling upon emulators and playing SNES games without sound so they would run full speed on my 90MHz Pentium
:yes-honey-left:
I'm convinced people have just internalized that they're supposed to be wreckers for capitalist social media companies because I refuse to believe anyone is truly too dumb to figure out how to use Lemmy.
Like sure, you do have to ask the question "how do I view/post on an instance other than my own?" at some point? Yeah... and then you just do that.
Most people do not mind a little bit of problem solving when interacting with a new thingie, and I don't know if you know this, but corporate social media is not exactly a UI/UX masterpiece
One thing I hate about Lemmy is how it doesn't have sponsored ads interspersed with real posts.
How am I supposed to know what to buy now?
For real though I imagine these users pretending Lemmy/Mastodon are impossible to use/comprehend to be the digital equivalent of people in infomercials who can't figure out how to cook scrambled eggs in a pan before getting introduced to super-no-stick pan that's only 5 easy payments of 49.99.
For real though I imagine these users pretending Lemmy/Mastodon are impossible to use/comprehend to be the digital equivalent of people in infomercials who can’t figure out how to cook scrambled eggs in a pan before getting introduced to super-no-stick pan that’s only 5 easy payments of 49.99.
WHERE DID THE SODA GO
Their interests are F1 and Tennis. Lets not give them too much credit.
its really easy, he just doesn't fucking want to participate. he wants to scroll a feed pre-curated for him by powerusers and mods and do nothing besides occasionally upvote and comment. he could easily create a comm for f1 or tennis if none exist, but he's just salty every community under the sun doesn't already exist for him to peruse. Reddit also didn't have this at the beginning.
Okay I'm going to see if vlemmy blocks lemmygrad so I can go say this there
What, you mean you don't have three different accounts on various servers so you can tell anyone in the entire network how much you disagree with them? Amateur.
Okay I’m going to see if vlemmy blocks lemmygrad so I can go say this there
:rat-salute:
If a human needs to explain to me how to use a platform....
Reminds me of another thread I saw recently where someone was pointing out that they have extra code reviews in place for the one person on their dev team with a masters.
The thing about that is if you are competent you can get a high paying job with a bachelor's in CS, so anybody who has a master's is either not competent or is somebody who isn't very motivated by money and genuinely enjoys learning. I have some idea which side this guy falls on.
Good UX is a human indirectly explaining how to use a platform without ever interacting with you. :think-about-it:
I agree that it's not the most intuitive thing, but if a dumbass like me can figure it out, anyone can.
https://vlemmy.net/communities very hard. This was my first time using lemmy. it took 30 seconds.
that's not good enough? Go here https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Something tells me this "computer scientist" graduated after 2015
Judging from interactions I've had with new users the past week, the hard part for them seems less like finding communities on another instance but more figuring out how to actually get their instance to federate with the other instance's community. While it's not hard once you figure out that finding a community is as simple as searching for !community@instance.tld on the search page, it's definitely a bit unintuitive.
Just as the imposter syndrome of my Ph.D. program was starting to kick in, I'm reminded of the intelligence of others in my field.
Lemmy's UX is a bit rough around the edges, but it's not bad. I've implemented bad UX. From a post I made a while ago on my Lemmygrad account, this is bad UX:
There was a list of bank transactions that you could scroll through, and you could expand a transaction and change some of its details. If you change its category, a list of checkboxes will show up for applying the category change to other transactions that are similar. This list also was scrollable. There was a scrollable list inside a scrollable list. Neither of these scrollable lists had a scrollbar. The button on the expanded transaction for saving the changes triggered not one, not two, but three API calls. Everything’s peachy if all the calls succeed or they all fail, but what do you show the user if it some fail and some succeed? Who the fuck knows.
This is basically every redditor. They want everything already in place, zero desire to create or manage.
I admit I'm also the same, but I don't moan and cry about it.
damn a compsci guy cant figure that shit out? i figured it out after like 5 minutes of fucking with it. they really let anyone get a degree now
they really let anyone get a degree now
I regret to inform you that it's been that way for a while. It's mostly having some combination of work ethic and money rather than actual competence, at least in the fields I've been familiar with the state of.
