I get that, but we need to cater for the massss if we want to see lemmy grow

These things are so important to get right. We should address them, we’re likely losing so many users because you’re average person isn’t going to spend more than 10min to figure it out, definitely not 4 days

Sure but is the default https://feddit.uk/ ? because that sucks, and many people will give up before finding https://p.feddit.uk/

That’s a great idea, how can we get this ball rolling?

Once people are in the ecosystem it’s easy for them to move around, if eg. lemm.ee mods go on a powertrip it would be such a smooth transition for people to switch.

Sure pulling the metrics might be a little harder. But it costs us basically nothing to experiment.

Small changes like the one you mentioned is a big win, these things add up.

That’s my point, it’s so many loops people aren’t going to jump through.

This looks so nice!!

Not a lot of thought was put into selecting the defaults, all I’m saying is at the very least we should put thought into the defaults that are set. It takes away no control from the user.

That’s the problem yes, but we can make small changes that will have a huge impact.

It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.

Can you explain?

Thank you, I will do that and join their cause

We should experiment with setting different defaults for new users.

For new signups, set ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of users, give it 3 months or a year and see what effect it has on user retention.

This is a building a pyramid won’t sway in the wind etc.

I wonder if we can reach space by combining a pyramid like steel base and then into space elevator