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?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 days ago

    Yes! I as well started my Lemmy journey on kbin first.

    Back when the API changes were introduced in Reddit, everyone on Reddit kept about lemmy.

    Then, in the comments you read stuff like “Lemmy are a bunch of tankies, kbin is better, yada yada”…

    Great, now you’re already torn between two sides, without even knowing about the basic concepts of how they both work.

    You then go to one Lemmy server, and see how bad the UI is, then you check out kbin, and it feels nice.

    Well, and the rest is history…

    • FarraigePlaisteachEnglish
      1•4 days ago

      The whole process was a massive time and energy drain in the end with no benefit. I don’t think anyone with a life would pursue something like this any further. I trialled-and-errored my way to Lemmy.world while I was out of work. Otherwise I’d still be on Reddit.