This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.

Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.

What can we do?

  • joelghill@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    For the majority of commenters: UX is not UI.

    The poor UX experience is the research a person has to do before they can even participate. You need to have a basic understanding of how the network works, and then you have to shop around for a server.

    It’s enough friction to prevent people from on-boarding and that’s not good for a platform that needs people to be valuable.

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      9 days ago

      I disagree. I just found a link to lemmy.world, with no idea of how lemmy worked, and I’m perfectly happy. To me it seems like people’s endless complaints about servers come down to personal issues.

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        It’s like politics, hahaha. Those who don’t trouble themselves with too many details remain content with whatever they their emotions dictated while those who do research, sort out real facts, read reviews, understand the platform details live the next four years in constant anxiety

        It’s actually a good point. To scale up we need to reach beyond nerds , find a populist voice