sarahsquirrel

My hope that we can create an easy-to-use fediverse alternative to FB groups and events is literally why I'm here. Help me make this happen!!

Ahh. Right. Thanks for bearing with me as a new user who is trying to figure things out.

Yes, I was on that community at lemmy.ml because I happened upon it by following links from lemmy.world I think. I clicked the big green Subscribe button at https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy . I got a dialogue box "Subscribe from Remote Instance. Enter the instance you would like to follow this community from", and entered aussie.zone

This process worked fine for other communities I subscribed to.

But for this one I got the "Server error" message. (I was later able to subscribe successfully by copy-pasting the community address into the aussie.zone search.)

Thanks! Yes Friendica is interesting, too! I took it for a quick spin and and yes, I think there are some opportunities to improve things for new and non-technical users that could be tackled with some user research and user-centred design! Are there places i should look if I want to contribute to Friendica or Fedilab? If you have suggestions for an active Friendica server I could try out as a newbie that'd be great.

Indeed, there are some UI differences between servers. But I think several of the Fedi services share difficulties related to high priority user tasks (sign up, logon, find posts / threads of interest, reply, post). I'm thinking some attention to users' mental models and development design patterns might benefit several projects and many servers all at once, perhaps. Just a thought.

Thank you again.

Cool! For new users who aren't familiar with Lemmy, I think it'd be great to see suggestions for communities to join when first encountering the home page. That'd help newbies understand what "communities" are all about, give them get a sense of what types of topics are discussed here on Aussie.zone and help them find and subscribe to some communities of interest.

What do you reckon? Would it be feasible to add a link to few of the most popular / flagship communities to the homepage sidebar, and perhaps a [See all Communities] link underneath? Perhaps there are cons I haven't thought of. Cheers!

I agree with your caution against moving fast and breaking things!

I think that user-centred design tools can be very useful for big projects and existing services as well as small projects in development :)

Thanks! It is useful for me to have more of a poke around there, for sure!

Of course, human-centred design and UX is more than just bug reports (sorry I'm probably telling you stuff you already know).

I am also interested to connect with other people thinking about the UX (end to end user experience) of Lemmy: find out what's already been done in terms of speaking with diverse potential users, finding out how people want to use it, thinking about mental models and user stories, etc.

I think it's more that it's very easy (and now free) to book a campsite and there's zero incentive for people to cancel bookings they aren't going to use.

Ghost bookings would be a labour intensive way to limit the number of people at campsites (ParkVics would have far easier ways to do that) and Bookings contractor commissions? On free bookings? That wouldn't be very lucrative.

Your org has a SharePoint structure? I'm very envious! At our place we have multiple SharePoint archipelagos and no map.

Let the best arguments win

Unfortunately, it's very hard for citizens to distinguish lies from truth. E.g. the "Children Overboard" scandal - a well timed lie can win an election. At the very least we need honesty in our election materials. Libellous electioneering is dangerous.

Sounds good... Could I ask for the TLDR for those of us who are new here and don't know much about the Lemmy-verse and backend?

Agreed, we must direct a lot of attention to what's happening in the US. But we have multiple government departments to work on concurrent crises (not one person with one phone).

Yes, and systems thinking would encourage us to explore why that is: Starting with understanding the patterns, systems and structures, mental models that cause ppl (especially in Aus) to treat Climate Change like a less important problem than the rise of fascism.