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?

  • QuacksalberEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    The UI isn’t the problem? The attached screenshot shows people talking about federation. Federation is very confusing, but also the core part of how the Fediverse functions. The only thing you could to is to provide an entry portal, where all servers are categorized by the type of content they provide and you can check and uncheck the type of content you want or might want to interact with. Based on your choices, the portal could recommend a random Lemmy or Mbin instance that has a track record of being reliable and allows you to interact with most content of that type. So if you’d want to see porn for example, the portal should choose an instance that is federated with lemmynsfw.

    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      The UI is fine, you can use Photon or other modern UI’s

      The UX is the problem (User Experience), the defaults just suck and many will give up before even knowing better UI’s exist, or finding the right settings to make the default UI work for them.

      Just picking a instance is intimidating and many will give up before that, we should guide them to pick an instance or choose a default and give them the option to change.

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        we should guide them to pick an instance or choose a default and give them the option to change.

        Isn’t that what most people are doing nowadays?