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?

  • joelghill@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    20 days ago

    For the majority of commenters: UX is not UI.

    The poor UX experience is the research a person has to do before they can even participate. You need to have a basic understanding of how the network works, and then you have to shop around for a server.

    It’s enough friction to prevent people from on-boarding and that’s not good for a platform that needs people to be valuable.

    • dekerta@lemmy.caEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Maybe this is a terrible thing to say, but I actually like that registering for federated sites requires a bit work.

      IMO, the internet was more enjoyable when it was just full of us nerds 😅

      • PaintedSnail@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        That does come with the unavoidable side effect that the majority of the people will simply not participate. It then follows that sites like Reddit will continue to be the place where the majority of the people will go.

        If your goal is to participate in small communities and you are okay with the slow pace of those communities, then that’s fine. If your goal is to move people away from corporate-sponsored media for whatever reason, then this won’t work.