This is an extremely shallow perspective

What about handling it like a mental health issue?

Absolutely agree! I don’t have the answers to those questions

Do you have any contexts in mind?

You’re on street(ActivityPub), you have your home(lemmy.ml) and in your home there’s a bunch of rooms with people hanging out(communities), but you can visit other houses(Beehaw, kbin) on the street and hang out in their rooms too.

There may be rooms in different houses that have similar purposes, but you can freely go to whichever is best for you and aren’t required to stay home. It doesn’t matter if there are multiple rooms in different houses for the same purpose; just check them out and see which one works best for you

I’ve been wanting Sydney Rd to go carless for AGES

I’m very new to contributing in that kind of style, git and code is scary to me; I’m more here for research, recommendations and element design.

What would be the best way to contribute non-coding expertise? I always feel like I’m imposing in these kind of spaces when I want to offer advice and insights as they come from such a different sphere

There’s 2 “Link to post” buttons The chain icon takes you to the post/comment but within your home instance, the Fediverse icon does the same thing, but the link is directly to the original post/comment’s instance.

I like the metaphor of Home and Neighborhood, I reckon that would resonate with potential users

If I hadn’t already settled into Mastodon I would have been super lost, still was to a degree…

And Join-Lemmy seemed to be pushing me to Lemmygrad, which is cute, but I wanted something more general and had only heard of beehaw through other people discussing Lemmy

The iconography on posts is pretty confusing too, needs some good labeling “Open in Home Instance” & “Open in Original Instance” would help

I think something to focus on would be a clean and easy-to-understand explanation of Lemmy and how the instances federate together.

This is still something Mastodon is struggling with when it comes to onboarding. Even for the technologically minded, it can be a steep curve and there are potentially a lot of other people who will balk at the walls of text and technical jargon.

Obviously, it all can’t be fixed overnight, but I feel a lot can be done to improve the onboarding for users without overloading them with information.

Maybe a small step-by-step wizard-style system to help someone find and instance and explain Lemmy in bite-sized chunks of info would be a good first step.

Professionally I’m a UX Designer and Business Design consultant and I’d love to be able to lend expertise to the project!

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I’m 90% though a build; Mortgage & Rent for me

Good thing I like porridge