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Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.
What can we do?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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I switched to Mbin but Lemmy has a variety of interfaces, not so sure this is necessarily a UX issue but an understanding issue.
That is a UX issue.
UX is like a Joke, if you need to explain it to someone, it's a bad Joke/UX
Explain what exactly?
If you have to explain a joke it loses its meaning. If you have to explain UI, it loses its meaning.
It should be self explanatory.
People here say Lemmy's UX is fine, and then give a paragraph of instructions a user should follow to get started. They should just be able to start scrolling immediately, and if they want to interact they should be asked to create an account, and a instance suggested.
Sorry, but that's not really an answer: Explain what you are referring to exactly please?
They can start scrolling immediately on every instance that I've seen.
This comment better explains the issues we have: https://lemmy.ca/comment/14524858
Can't say I agree with all of that and some of it is factually incorrect (Jeroba is the "official" app, for instance, and Interstellar is pretty damn good for another).
Much of what they complain about isn't exactly UX per se either.