I 100% agree, it drives me nuts too.

Yeah I thought something was maybe wrong until I saw this post. Massive improvement.

Excellent work!

Ethics is meaningless when corporations are doing “research” for profit.

I put it in quotes because a lot of the “research” done by companies doesn’t even resemble real scientific research. They use the word to give “we forced a new feature in front of unwilling users, never asked if they liked it, and took them continuing to use the site as liking it” legitimacy when talking to news outlets.

The implication here is that if they are testing it on logged in users, then they will eventually roll it out to ALL users, whether logged in or not.

They want to force more people to download the app so that they can show potential investors how many people are using the app, and so they can mine data off of phones with the app. I fucking guarantee that’s what this is.

They are gambling that the people who incidentally land on reddit using their phones to search for things will be more likely to download the app than stop using reddit when it comes up in a search.

THATS WHAT IT IS THANK YOU

I wasn’t thinking to click and hold… I may put a request in for a toggle that lets you swap the single click and click and hold functionality. I’m use to Infinity for Reddit (which I think offered the same) where I press and hold to collapse comments and single tap to open/close comment interactions

When you’re worth a hundred billion dollars EVERYTHING is optional. The landlord wants some of that sweet cash so he will tolerate any amount of waiting. Would YOU want to piss off one of the richest men in the world? He’s called people pedophiles for significantly less with no evidence at all. He’s doxxed people. He has millions of loyal dedicated followers who will harass you and threaten you.

Capital is way more than just money and Elon has more than almost anyone else on the planet.

I’m seeing the same, not sure if it’s all images in comments or just that one

I kind of agree… And also kind of disagree.

I think people will be attracted to places like blue sky because they are more similar to what they are used to and more user friendly. When people were looking to leave Twitter, I remember Mastodon being talked about. When I first looked into it, it was super confusing. I’m literally a software developer, and I was having trouble figuring out what was even going on here.

I understand that different platforms will have different features, and don’t expect lemmy to be exactly like reddit or mastodon to be exactly like Twitter. But to get casual users to come to either, they need to be easy to join, easy to use, and easy to understand. I think that starting off by explaining to users what the fediverse is is too confusing.

Frankly, I think the biggest thing right now, by far, is that there needs to be a centralized, or pseudo-centralized, login system. That is the biggest hurdle for all new users, and explaining how to make an account basically requires explaining how the fediverse works-which for most people is just too much information at once. They’ll see that, think “this is too confusing,” and leave.

Ease of use and adding more features will come with time, more users, and an influx of money from those users to support development. But we need to attract users first, and to do so we need to make the process of joining really clear, concise, and easy. And we need to remove the risk that if your instance gets deleted, so does your account.