I'm thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it's awesome. It's time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this "just solder it" open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.

For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

"The UI is bad" is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn't matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, "bad UI" is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago

It’s a stock attack because unfortunately it’s generally a pretty safe attack vector

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Well, that's intentional though. The stuff that's buried is the stuff that doesn't make them money.

Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

"The UI is bad" = "It doesn't feed me new and popular content automatically"

Basically sums that up.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What is a "Good UI/UX" ?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

"That what I am used to with years of muscle memory and anything that is different is bad UX" usually...

[–] somtwo@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The reason I dislike this comment is it characterizes the work of many different people as "don't care." I would bet money that there are people who work on fediverse projects who care very deeply about UX but have to settle because they have day jobs.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The UI's aren't that bad. They're replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they're replicating them so closely they're probably open for lawsuit :)

Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.

If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I only used sync on reddit and that's all I use on lemmy, tried many of the others and they're good but not perfect, for both the closed source and open source projects

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm using Voyager. It's amazing that we have choices.

Reddit and Facebook's interfaces aren't any better than anything we're using, and they're full of sponsored content.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

We have https://phanpy.social/ for mastodon, it's great

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This will never happen without funding. Open Source severaly lacks funding big corporations have.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

If they made it so your average joe could contribute to the Fediverse with their own hardware I'd contribute. Tired of seeing social media be owned by Billionares.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 13 points 21 hours ago

Lemmy is lucky to have alternative frontend like Photon, Tesseract and Alexandrite

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

I wonder if you'll mention Gemini, just for fun