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?

  • Die4EverEnglish
    1•5 days ago

    These things don’t affect the average user (lurker) much at all. Ideally you just start with whatever instance and only move if you don’t like it. A new user can’t really know if an instance is bad or not before trying it.

    (As long as the recommendation page doesn’t give them an extremist instance)

    • @FeathercrownEnglish
      1•5 days ago

      Right, but that’s the issue. It can give them an extremist instance and they join and get banned and never come back. The instance matters, and they know that intuitively, which is why they have choice paralysis in the first place. We should help them choose by providing information about each instance.

      • Die4EverEnglish
        1•5 days ago

        Right, but that’s the issue. It can give them an extremist instance

        Yeah but that’s just join-lemmy, someone could make their own website that doesn’t have this issue, even without overloading the user with info. It should only show instances that are middle of the road general instances.

        • @FeathercrownEnglish
          1•5 days ago

          Yes, that would be a good addition to the Lemmy ecosystem.

          What I’m saying is, you can’t agree that we should help them avoid extremist instances AND say that the instance doesn’t matter.