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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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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh so we badmouthing & smearing the Fediverse huh.

Ok let's ask them what counts as a "Good UI/UX" & "Endless wars" ? Really ?

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Try not caring. The more Reddit users come here the more it's going to suck.

This is just bot-driven FUD anyway, Lemmy is nothing like old Reddit and it wouldn't be disqualifying if it was.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I switched to Mbin but Lemmy has a variety of interfaces, not so sure this is necessarily a UX issue but an understanding issue.

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That is a UX issue.

UX is like a Joke, if you need to explain it to someone, it's a bad Joke/UX

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[–] letraset@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago

Unlike twitter, if there are UI issues, people have a lot of options to try different clients, both mobile and web. I don't use one only, I flip between a bunch of them, both on web and mobile. Sometimes the vanilla Lemmy experience is what you want, other times someone might have made a great ui for browsing one specific community that you subscribe to.

I'm also somewhere against the argument of it being difficult to pick a server, too difficult to know if it's the right one for me, etc etc. In other parts of life, people make decisions on this all the time, day in day out, without batting an eyelid, and even on issues with a bigger impact on them, than which federated instans they sign up to a service on. Mobile phone subscriptions, which email provider you should use, what internet provider you should sign up with.

For some reason, social media seems to be one of these areas where we think it's totally fine that monopolies exist, and options are not... an option. We need to resocialise the idea that it doesn't hurt to make a conscious choice about where you lay your identity online, and what you sink your time and attention into.

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