I think it’s great that it now sends people to an instance. One other recommendation is to not send people to the signup page but simply to the home page of the instance. For example a redirect goes to to thelemmy.club but it states that anyone who wants to join that server needs to wait for acceptance after creating an account. This is a major turnoff for new users

https://thelemmy.club/signup

Instead the redirect going to the home page https://thelemmy.club/ would be much better as people can instantly see Lemmy and what Lemmy actually is.

“A forum for the Fediverse” is my preference

We could also consider showing lemmy.world again

Possibly. Dumping everyone at lemmy.zip is a possibility too. lemmy.wtf is is a bit too on the nose.

I would avoid using instances without “lemmy” in the name like reddthat, it was very confusing to me when I started out.

I would consider removing the topic selection, because there are some which barely narrow it down (technology, general or politics each show a few dozen instances)

I think I agree with that, at least for now. The only topic instance with real specific activity in that list is probably blahaj for the LGBTQ.

The new front page looks much better and cleaner. Not sure about the “Apps” though, people need to create an account first so. Maybe “Instance selector”? Also I’d call it “Mobile Apps” instead, “Apps” is a bit vague.

I still plead for removing both buttons and directly showing the “instance selector” in the middle area, with the “See all instances” showing in the top bar only. Maybe slightly more prominently than the other top bar icons

One of the buttons talks about “instances” and the other one about “servers in your new design”. Not sure what the difference there is

Extra clicks are a huge deal. There’s a reason platforms like Amazon are so focussed on minimizing the amount of clicks users have to go through to from webpage to payment.

Getting a Lemmy users to finish their registration in this case is similar to “getting a transaction done”. Language selectors are a massive list of languages and a big hindrance.

With the current amount of users on Lemmy I think language specific content is still too niche and it should be nothing more than an option. The extra click certainly isn’t worth it. People can always sign up for a language specific Lemmy instance later on if they so wish. They just need to get in, and get in fast with minimal friction.

• The term Link Aggregator has got to go. Call it a forum and call it a day

• Join Lemmy button is redundant. In fact I don’t think it should even exist. All the buttons have got to go and people should directly see the “what are your interests” selection menu.

• Donation button can be on top, but I don’t think it’s handy to have it at onboarding when people don’t know what Lemmy is

• See all servers button at the top as well

• There needs to be more “general” servers. Lemmy.world was the most popular choice because people want to check out Lemmy and just click on “general”. Not sure if .ml still has the commie paste prompt.

• If possible let their first server be a general one without email verification so they can quickly join

• Most people don’t have a preference for interests, I’d make one giant button on the left saying “all” or " general" or something like that which just directly sends you to a “general” server, and one on the right which allows to select interests.

• Images of Lemmy at the bottom are a bit confusing maybe? undecided on that

• “All topics” and “General” is redundant

Selecting interests for personalized experience is something which should happen on an account basis imo. Reddit lets users select their interests and bases their frontpage algorithm on that. And people can change those filters if they so wish to get a different feed. That’s customization on an account level, not on instance level.

Language customization should be less emphasized, or should be put in the “interests” section based on their country IP while joining. On the internet imperialist English has been considered the default language. The join-Lemmy page is English to begin with.

The overwhelming majority of cross posts are simply the link or occasionally there is a small amount of different text in the body.

It would be awesome, this is probably the most important issue Lemmy is facing.

Maybe community moderators could decide to defederate with certain other communities if they believe that the moderation there is not up to snuff.

Or maybe community moderators could moderate the combined comment section of what people can see on their own communities, even when it is posted on other communities, but not remove comments or ban people from those other communities.

Honestly, a bit of experimentation might just be necessary to see what works, but I think we definitely need a way to combine posts which are redundant.

I think the communities button is especially important because it’s mainly how I navigate Lemmy. Create post is handy too. Create community not really.

@Nutomic can we get these buttons back in smaller view?

Ah thanks there it is. I thought it would be next to the other big buttons

When resizing Lemmy in browser to half screen by dragging it to the side my top bar with communities and create post dissapears.

When did Reddit mods get this based

Xzibit

This is true but the problem is seeing repeat threads. Maybe it is a stretch but would it be possible to stack the comments under each other separated by a head of which sub the comments are from

Preferable a smaller rotating "general’ instance such as zip or sdf to prevent the clustering around large instances.

A major issue is accounts are bound to instances. It would be amazing if there was a way to migrate accounts from one instance to another if a user so desires later on.

Another major issue is there are no real instances where the admins are not actively trying to enforce a certain political point of view from the top down which means there are no “real general instances”.

Lemmy has a huge onboarding problem. Instead of trying to make users learn about instances they should be able to join a default instance directly.