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?

  • .DonutsEnglish
    13•7 hours ago

    If that was a legitimate issue, MMO’s (which also often have servers the player needs to choose) wouldn’t have the userbase they do. Nor would Email have taken off.

    But in an MMO, you still get the same content no matter what server you choose. Over here, it directly impacts what content you can interact with based on (de)federation.

    • @hemmesEnglish
      6•5 hours ago

      I’m on three different instances and the sort by All-hot feed is nearly identical.

      I’m not on Beehaw or Hexbear, but those instances make it pretty well known they block a lot of other instances.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 hours ago

        Some instances have very different rules on them that would affect your experience. Like not allowing downvotes, for example. Blahaj users can’t see downvotes or downvote anything themselves.

    • @[email protected]English
      16•7 hours ago

      If you joined a German-speaking WoW server as a non-speaking German, the experience was going to be subpar

      • .DonutsEnglish
        4•6 hours ago

        Yes, and if you join a German-speaking instance as a non-German speaking user, the experience will also be subpar. Hence I talked about content, not language.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 hours ago

          I just remembered that WoW nowadays offers a lot of different experiences: Classic, Seasons of Mastery, Retail, etc.

          And people get different experiences based on the server they pick.