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?

  • @UrukGuyEnglish
    1•6 days ago

    Shut down as in ‘that’s a terrible idea for the fediverse’

    If it was public & randomly sorted to the fediverse Lemmy servers, I don’t see how it would be an issue

      • @[email protected]English
        1•6 days ago

        @[email protected] commented above with a good experience of why it’s a crappy idea (I was thinking a randomzier would be good too.

        I just clicked the first option it showed, which (for me) was a non-English instance. The second option was that LGBT-focused instance that defederated with lemmy.world a few months ago. Of course I didn’t know anything about either community so I just picked randomly.

        I could see that happening a lot. I’ve messed with other randomizing systems and sometimes you forget how many niche or non matching picks can pop up when you really look at it. Even a 10% match with language barriers wouldn’t be good for a reliable system of placement.

        I also don’t like the “what harry potter house” do you belong to quiz stuff or anything that asks to crawl or input your data (no thank you). Definitely more complicated than I thought.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•6 days ago

          Oh, yeah, I can see why uniform randomness would be a problem. I thought the criticism was directed at “Just sort people into a Lemmy server either based off their interests or location”

          I was thinking that you do a little questionnaire and it gives you the best matching server.