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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?
I suggested it to a few ppl and even offered to show them how to use it but they said it’s “too hard to understand” sad times we live in.
I don’t really buy it tbh. People nowadays take pride in using stuff without understanding it. From Cookie Clicker, to even something as dangerous as car driving. In theory, they should be salivating at the Fediverse.
If they find Lemmy “too hard to understand”, do we really want them here?
I do. Anything is better than the sites they are on currently. More different opinions can help a place grow.
Gatekeeping at its finest.
I for one would welcome anybody here who wants to come. Rather them than more people with your mindset.
Both can be true. We can welcome everybody who wants to come, and also realize that having 100 million complete noobs suddenly join wouldn’t necessarily be the best outcome either.
Show people the way and if they indicate that it’s too much effort to do a bit of research for 10-20 minutes, understand that it’s not exactly a huge loss for them to not join.
Pre-emptive defederation