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?

  • @[email protected]English
    14•6 hours ago

    It’s not difficult though. They just can’t be arsed and are making excuses for being comfortable and lazy. If there was a $100 million marketing budget and their favourite celebrity was here, they’d sit an hour long entrance exam. The best we can do is make it fun enough here that people want to comment.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      6•5 hours ago

      We should try to do both, give a good UX and make it fun.

      Everyone benefits from good UX

    • @fishosEnglish
      3•6 hours ago

      Exactly. If this minimal effort is keeping people out - GOOD. If you can’t put the bare minimum effort in, then you’ll just be another mindless TikTok type person and we really don’t need those.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•4 hours ago

        A counterargument to this is that a lot of people (who would put in the minimal effort) don’t come here instead of Reddit because their niche community isn’t represented well. So while it’s nice to have higher effort/engagement members, you can’t possibly cover all of what most people want to see without a lot of those.