I think of these as design problems more than UX issues. Still, they're real and plague the fediverse even now. The list includes: instance selection issues, confusing timelines, difficulty following people, direct messaging issues, search, content discovery, and user discovery (the last three are variations on a single theme). Most of the solutions described in the post come in the form of third party apps: for example, "Services like tags.pub, relay.fedi.buzz, andtagpush.app already provide followable ActivityPub actors for each hashtag." Also, "Activity Intents just landed. Fediscovery is actually available to test." Will these solve the usability problems? I'm inclined to say no. This post is a follow-up to "Tim's Part 1 and Part 2, and Sean's solutions" and you may want to read them first, though it's not necessary.
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