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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?

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[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell, it can filter out tech people too. I'm a programmer by trade, but I almost dipped on lemmy because the onboarding is confusing enough. Like, I obviously (mostly) figured it out, but I did consider going "eh fuck it" and dipping. The site is ultimately a luxury and not a requirement, so effort or confusion required to get all started up is also something that'll drive me to consider it not all worth it for some social media I'm not even sure I want to be a part of yet.

[โ€“] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I think the verifcation question might trip ppl up, just not used to needing one or it being an actual answer, or copying and pasting for it, I signed up for a few and each time I felt like I was doing it wrong