Kierunkowy74

Kierunkowy74, 10 months ago

@hvitis
The concept of the Fediverse in one sentence: a series of tubes, urm,... a bunch of interoperable websites - that means, that these sites can talk to each other and their users can seamlessy access remote content.

Some Fediverse's UX problems, that I noticed:

• Federation is maybe not unintuitive or complicated concept, but indeed, it is completely foreign for anyone outside. The initial instance choice is relevant to your experience, but as a newcomer you do not know at all, what actually matters for you. And the great number of servers, softwares, reinforces your FOMO. Official Mastodon app already onboards you mainly on mastodon.social, there is kbin.world, which redirects you to your geografically relevant threadiverse community
• The Fediverse is actually explorable in (as I would call it) two modes: a silo mode and a surfer mode. The silo mode is what you are already experiencing on commercial social media, as Facebook, Twitter, Wykop, Reddit, etc.. "Everything" in a one app/site. Here, sites are relatively small, but interoperability helps find remote content, sort of. In a silo mode this discovery is limited to what your instance neighbours are following, and to any boosts of local or followed accounts. The surfer mode is simply surfing the Web and finding new content outside your instance. The UX problem in surfer mode is a convoluted way to interact with content found that way. You have to copy that post URL, and paste it into your instance's search and hope it would fetch it, and then only to interact. Web browser addons, which automate the process of fetching the content to server of your choice already exist, but this feature should actually be built in into browsers (addons don't really exist on mobile)

Yes, this is a feature request - for Fediverse companion feature - for both @Vivaldi and @mozilla 's Firefox