Thanks! Yes Friendica is interesting, too! I took it for a quick spin and and yes, I think there are some opportunities to improve things for new and non-technical users that could be tackled with some user research and user-centred design! Are there places i should look if I want to contribute to Friendica or Fedilab? If you have suggestions for an active Friendica server I could try out as a newbie that’d be great.

Indeed, there are some UI differences between servers. But I think several of the Fedi services share difficulties related to high priority user tasks (sign up, logon, find posts / threads of interest, reply, post). I’m thinking some attention to users’ mental models and development design patterns might benefit several projects and many servers all at once, perhaps. Just a thought.

Thank you again.

I agree with your caution against moving fast and breaking things!

I think that user-centred design tools can be very useful for big projects and existing services as well as small projects in development :)

Thanks! It is useful for me to have more of a poke around there, for sure!

Of course, human-centred design and UX is more than just bug reports (sorry I’m probably telling you stuff you already know).

I am also interested to connect with other people thinking about the UX (end to end user experience) of Lemmy: find out what’s already been done in terms of speaking with diverse potential users, finding out how people want to use it, thinking about mental models and user stories, etc.

I’m confused. I mean, New York Times and Reuters are generalist news outlets. Politico is a politics news and analysis site. In what respect are the public broadcasters not offering what you’re looking for? I love The Guardian but I don’t see how it’s a better match?

BBC News and ABC News and CBC News services (podcasts or read online) are good for general and political & business world news and analysis, including US news. They have news streams, in-depth analysis pieces and a huge range of podcasts.

PBS and NPR have online news streams and podcasts on all of these topics also.

Check out The Conversation, too.

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn/episodes/downloads
• https://www.bbc.com/news/us-canada
• https://www.bbc.com/news/bbcindepth
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/world
• https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/if-youre-listening
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/world
• https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-9-cbc-news-the-world-this-hour
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/business
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world
• https://www.npr.org/sections/world/
• https://www.npr.org/sections/money/ - e.g. Planet Money
• https://theconversation.com/global
• https://theconversation.com/topics/global-politics-519

What about the British broadcasting corporation, BBC, Canadian broadcasting corporation CBC Australian broadcasting corporation ABC? Also America’s own PBS and NPR are very much in need of support at the moment

Investigate local, community-run radio stations and independent news services, student journalism projects etc in your area as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_radio_stations_in_the_United_States