Media Revolution's Media Liberation Day on November 5 is encouraging people to liberate themselves from malignant corporate media to explore decentralized social networks. It's a great opportunity to bring people to fedi ... but as we all know, it's not always easy for people to get started, find what they're looking

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33480650

What resources, suggestions, and support can those of us who are already here provide to potential newcomers? And what can we do to prepare for – and encourage – a potential influx?

  • Sarah@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    For devs and admins:

    Do some usability testing and improvement

    • Recruit volunteer UX / usability professionals to run studies with users and recommend usability improvements.
    • Be prepared for some critical feedback.
    • Organise and prioritise the feedback
    • Recruit some volunteer UI designers, graphic designers and devs with experience of working with UXers to refine and implement the usability fixes

    Provide more user-friendly onboarding, signup, sign-in, password management etc. The barriers are very high even for those of us with good tech confidence.

    Provide better approaches and platforms for small groups (volunteer organisations, hobby and interest groups and neighbourhoods) to replace Facebook Groups and similar.

    Gain more experience of working with non-tech users, e.g. volunteer at your local library, seniors’ IT classes, to understand the challenges that 80% of users would face in using fedi products and gain some insights into how to resolve those issues