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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • I don’t remember which website, but there is one where both sign-up and log-in pages look the same. If you fill your username and password in the sign-up page, but you already have that account they log you in instead. If you put the details in the log-in page but that account doesn’t exist they send you to the full sign-up page.

    I thought that’s pretty neat.


  • The shopping realization for me is that I can’t find this kind of graphs online with my average ass searching skills.

    I can find linear graphs from the last 200 years or log graphs from the last 2000, but not what is show in this picture. No ship average joes think it looks natural, I’m convinced no one sees this graph, they see the shitty confusing ones. I bet many people don’t have any idea what a log graph even is.



  • The sad part is that all these issues have been known for a while now and none if them have been tackled at all so far.

    How amazing would it be if you could just link your account with any instance at any time? My instance is down? No worries, I connect using another.

    What if that community you are interested in doesn’t have its’ users split on 4 different instances making it even more niche than before?

    What if when I create an account I get a list of suggested instances and a mini description so I don’t have to immediately know what I’m doing and learn about this later? With proper account migration I could change this anytime I want.

    On top of all of that I keep hearing the mod tools are atrocious.

    When was the last time a major feature was added to lemmy? I think the only hope now is a different competitor on ActivityPub like piefed.







  • This is just my opinion. Lemmy doesn’t conform to many of the current standards of reduced friction for the user. Before joining you have to figure out that there are more than one servers that you could join and make a decision which one you want to be on and depending on your choice you have to take a mini interview and/or be approved by someone to join. After joining you probably either deal with an ugly page design that someone created like in the hi5/GeoCities days or you have to choose one of the milion apps that are available for it. While browsing you have to figure out that there are duplicate communities and figure out which ones you want to subscribe to and figure out what kind of sorting works best for you on your main page. And in order to discover more communities you go to All where you see a bunch of unhinges stuff that either you learn how to block or you ignore.

    By the time you are having a seamless experience you have truly past the test of being somewhere on the spectrum, because no normal person will ever put up with all this, as could be seen with the user gain of mastodon vs bluesky after Twitter went to shit. The platform with less friction even though more closed and proprietary gained more users.