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?

  • MajorllamaEnglish
    10•4 hours ago

    I wasn’t gonna say anything but that’s another issue with the userbase on Lemmy.

    It’s occupied by a lot of people who think they are better and smarter than everyone else. Not that reddit didn’t also have that problem but the smugness levels are definitely way higher around these parts.

      • MajorllamaEnglish
        1•3 hours ago

        I don’t know if I would say itll “go away” with time. More like it will get diluted over time as more people join with varying stances on things.

        See I am smarter and better than you so I know this to be the truth.

        /s

    • @SamboTEnglish
      2•3 hours ago

      Yeah i have a comp sci degree and it took me a minute to understand the different servers and how to curate my feed and then balance quality vs quantity of posts.

      Im capable of understanding but i dont want to put effort into my leisure app, and it seems like nobody else does either.

      Good starting defaults for instances and the “everything” front page seems most important. Maybe training people on the front page to branch out by showing them posts from up and coming communities…

      • MajorllamaEnglish
        3•3 hours ago

        Yeah and I completely agree with you, but look at the comments in this thread. So many people are coming off as elitists “why should we make things easier for stupid idiots we hate?”.

        Seems that many users here don’t actually want anyone else joining unless they meet their arbitrary standards for intelligence or whatever.

        • @SamboTEnglish
          2•2 hours ago

          Its an illusion of control and if lemmy grows their elitest sentiment will fade. They can go make a fringe instance with all the arbitrary knowledge requirements they want but the most populated instances on lemmy should be there for the layman users that want to do better than reddit.

          Why, with an established federated platform, would we not want to be the replacement for corporate social media? If they are so proud of registering on lemmy then idk if they are all that smart.

          • MajorllamaEnglish
            1•2 hours ago

            You make good points. I agree.