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?

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

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

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      10 days ago

      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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          10 days ago

          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.

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            10 days ago

            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.