cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55334864
Small things like ‘Auto expand media’ being set to true, can have a huge impact on user retention rate.
The vast majority of people never open or change default settings in the social media they use.
When they try out Lemmy etc., and the defaults aren’t great a lot of them will have a bad User Experience and leave.
I’m a IT professional, and joined Lemmy a few months ago, the UX sucked, most of that could have been fixed by having good defaults in place.
I powered through, but I won’t recommend Lemmy to many of my friends or family because I know they will give up due to too much friction in finding the right settings and how things work.
For the Fediverse to succeed focus needs to be put on giving people a very smooth UX from first opening a app or page, to finding enjoyment seeing and engaging with content.
They should force users to choose their languages, or at least select all languages in the beginning.
Indeed. Maybe with a 1st language and then other ones as needed. And then have the 1st/default one selected for every new post/comment.
Mine would be set to English by default, but I would be able to select French when I need it.