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

What can we do?

  • @[email protected]English
    38•8 hours ago

    Really early on like right after the API fuckfest, there was a large influx of users who picked servers based on whatever. As a result, servers defederated and there was a lot of drama as a result.

    Though that said I haven’t heard much about defederating in some time.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•8 hours ago

      What would prevent the same happening in the next wave of rats jumping ship? They don’t know anything about the servers or their niches, so they pick whatever. Listing all the servers and their missions is a good start for those motivated to join, but for those more on the fence, how do we ease the transition?

      • @ApollosArrowEnglish
        2•3 hours ago

        I’ve mentioned a list with info of some nature a few times, with people shutting down the idea. It always boiled down to “the instances may lie about what their instance is about”. In their heads what their write may be the truth, even if it isn’t. This would leave it up to a third party to make summaries of these instances, which may or may not be agreed upon. There may be too many drastic and conflicting ideologies.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•6 hours ago

        I personally see three big issues with getting new users to Lemmy use and stat on Lemmy:

        • knowing about it: It is a matter of time before Reddit bans linking to Lemmy. Either by outright preventing their discussion via shadow deletes or full deletes. join-lemmy.org would be well served by purchasing ads on Google and on Bing
        • join-lemmy ux needs to be improved: this goes to your point and I fully agree that there needs to be a better onboarding experience. I am a fairly technical guy and even I had trouble understanding the major concepts behind Lemmy. Many of these concepts aren’t terribly important to a new user though. At least at first.
        • more and better content: this is fortunately getting better but we’re not there yet
    • @roofuskitEnglish
      2•8 hours ago

      Pepperidge Farm remembers.