The article talks a lot about changes that will encourage import from the EU, while saying India's motivation is their reduced export volume. But it doesn't explain how India's exports will be bolstered. I'd go as far as to say it's a bad article, because now I have to go find another to actually learn what the implications are.
UK and Netherlands being on that list is crazy. Did Trump forget ASML has a China-export ban? What would happen to the USA's stock exchanges if it was swapped for a USA ban tomorrow?
Lemmy has limited federation with Bluesky and Threads. Lemmy itself isn't being given with a non-commercial license so if any Lemmy instance grows large it'll likely monetise and become a corporation.
I'd sooner think a distraction from Venezuela. If everyone is outraged about something that might (and then doesn't) happen, then there's less discourse around real crimes.
if you have any specific suggestions for better images I would be happy to replace them.
Okay. I will give this some thought.
(tags) dont exist in Lemmy itself, and the ones defined on joinlemmy are practically unmaintained.
It's unmaintained but at least it exists. I'm sure you'd go through the effort of updating them if an instance owner asked, right? So they're probably still close enough. You do have data to present and it's better than nothing.
For a normal user it shouldnt be necessary to understand federation before signing up.
But then what decision are they making? Both what decision are they actually making and what decision do they think they're making? Knowing that they can interact with all* the instances is hugely transformative to your heuristics.
Number of linked/blocked instances
Number linked is good, but blocked has the problem of confusing narrow scope and being vigilant against spam. An instance might federate with everyone* but because it's more maintained they also block more.
Is there any other information you would like
Cloudflare is useful to know for our privacy-consonous userbase. It might be kinda technical but if there is one or two stats visible the user cares about or at least understands then I don't think having one they don't understand matters. They essentially don't understand "users" and that's the main thing presented right now.
Extra clicks are not a big deal. You go through the wizard once. Extra cognitive load is the problem, and it's abstracted as clicks or steps. But anyone who sees a language selector understands what is being asked of them and which language they need to pick.
Ask the user if they want to give Hitler a medal or a bullet. Medal redirects to .world and bullet to grad.👍
(This is a joke).
I think the colour scheme and dark-mode screenshots contributes to it looking daunting. You even have Matrix (the film)-text in the open source banner photo. The website looks like it's trying to sell the Lemmy software instead of the Lemmy user experience/community. I think just changing those photos to gentler more iconographic or symbolic ones would go a long way towards making it lighter to process. In fact in-fact, those concepts don't really need pictures to make them easier to communicate, but the features list probably does. There's a paste-icon and then it says "Clean, mobile-friendly interface.". I think just having a mobile screenshot would communicate that way better.
As for helping the user find an instance: If you can find a concise way to communicate what federation is, that'll probably take some of the anxiety away. I don't really know how. What do people think about maybe showing like a "80% federated" type stat? Tags would also help, because right now you're basically going by the logo and name, and only when one catches your eye do you read the description. (You might immediately read the description of the first few presented). I think users probably want to compare by seeing structured information so the differences stand out. Since the description is free form it's not 1-to-1 like tags would be. The current presentations makes user count seem by far the most important. And then once you've made that assumption you'll probably make another assumption that user count determines how much content you can interact with.
On the internet imperialist English has been considered the default language. The join-Lemmy page is English to begin with.
I disagree with this. Anything to encourage other language use is good. And for me it builds confidence to see the selection. Both because I think the community is large enough to exist in other languages and because it signals the developer's priorities. If there were good options in my preferred languages I would absolutely have joined a non-English instance instead. That's not going to exist if the UI buries the option.
Trump and Putin sure, but also everyone whose ever had a leadership role in the USA military. Obama is still alive. Bush is still alive. And ideally to a more trustworthy court.
I feel the same way about smartphones but it's now completely normalised. Glasses are less paranoia-inducing since you can clearly see where it's pointed and it's at eye-level. I'd rather discourage smartphone use than smart-glasses use.
If you're referring to touch screen users, then I don't see how not having copy/pasting work when you plug in a mouse benefits them normally when they don't have mice plugged in.
The idea of learning three languages through an app at once in a short period is silly. Which one of these languages do you actually stand a chance at becoming fluent in? Are you already conversational? It's a much lower bar to be able to hold a conversation with someone who's trying to teach you the language and is patient with you than what's needed for every day life. But if you can meet that bar today you'll probably be able to learn the language well too.
I assure you the Dutch speak Dutch. Many Dutch people also know English because it's a mandatory subject in school, but if I said that in the UK they don't speak English, and that they all speak French, would you think I was accurately describing the situation in the UK?
The results of the second study mirrored the first. The monetary incentive did not correct the overestimation bias. The group using AI continued to perform better than the unaided group but persisted in overestimating their scores. The unaided group showed the classic Dunning-Kruger pattern, where the least skilled participants showed the most bias. The AI group again showed a uniform bias, confirming that the technology fundamentally shifts how users perceive their competence.
So it's only high performers that are affected then, no? I also wish the article would mention the average bias from the control group. I know the curve looks different, but it sounds like they're probably only talking about a single answer worth of difference between the groups, and with only ~600 participants that doesn't seem that significant.
The researchers noted that most participants acted as passive recipients of information. They frequently copied and pasted questions into the chat and accepted the AI’s output without significant challenge or verification. Only a small fraction of users treated the AI as a collaborative partner or a tool for double-checking their own logic.
So then it's possible that they correctly assessed that they're worse at the test than the AI as established earlier in the article. That seems pretty important. I'm sure it's covered in the actual paper but I can only access the article.
The article talks a lot about changes that will encourage import from the EU, while saying India's motivation is their reduced export volume. But it doesn't explain how India's exports will be bolstered. I'd go as far as to say it's a bad article, because now I have to go find another to actually learn what the implications are.