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?

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Why is “drama” on Lemmy always highly exaggerated by people?

    “Endless wars of who federates with who”. What is that person even talking about and who the fuck would even care as a normal user?

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The people who aren’t here are making excuses to not be here. Otherwise they’d be here.

      That being said the feud between world and ml users is pretty noticeable

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Really early on like right after the API fuckfest, there was a large influx of users who picked servers based on whatever. As a result, servers defederated and there was a lot of drama as a result.

      Though that said I haven’t heard much about defederating in some time.

      • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        What would prevent the same happening in the next wave of rats jumping ship? They don’t know anything about the servers or their niches, so they pick whatever. Listing all the servers and their missions is a good start for those motivated to join, but for those more on the fence, how do we ease the transition?

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          I personally see three big issues with getting new users to Lemmy use and stat on Lemmy:

          • knowing about it: It is a matter of time before Reddit bans linking to Lemmy. Either by outright preventing their discussion via shadow deletes or full deletes. join-lemmy.org would be well served by purchasing ads on Google and on Bing
          • join-lemmy ux needs to be improved: this goes to your point and I fully agree that there needs to be a better onboarding experience. I am a fairly technical guy and even I had trouble understanding the major concepts behind Lemmy. Many of these concepts aren’t terribly important to a new user though. At least at first.
          • more and better content: this is fortunately getting better but we’re not there yet
    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      When half the posts in your feed are “X instance bad” people get just tired and go out.

      It has happened to me sometimes a meaningful part of my feed was just people brigading about some instance they don’t like. It’s ridiculous.

    • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Been using Lemmy for a couple of years, not seen this once.

      Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.

      These people are just stakeholders in Reddit. They are afraid of change, or losing any rep they have. They sit on a pile of useless upvotes.

      • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I think a lot of people that think the UX is different from reddit weren’t on reddit 14 years ago when it did look very similar to this.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        Really? You never ran into the endless “…furthermore, .ml must be defederated” posts?