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?

  • @FilthyShroomsEnglish
    12•4 hours ago

    Yea getting into Lemmy is confusing. I only use sync because it’s easier, I have no idea how to even access it on desktop. It definitely needs some QoL improvements before I can really start recommending it to people

    • @secretlyaddictedtolinuxEnglish
      3•3 hours ago

      There is a reason such a large part of Lemmy is developers. There’s no confusion signing up for the developers. Federations and servers and instances are all crazy jargon to regular people. Although we may not want all regular types here, having some more regular people to balance out all the high IQ techies could make things more fun.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•4 hours ago

      To access it on desktop, just open the browser and type your server’s URL (in your case, lemmy.world). It’s not some special protocol, it’s a regular site.

      I guess we have inevitably reached the “apps for everything” point, after which people become uncomfortable just typing something into the browser.

      Cross-platform desktop Lemmy app, anyone?