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?

  • smeg@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    You’re thinking like a designer for a slick, centralised, profit-and-growth-seeking company (no shade, I’m guessing that thinking literally makes you good at your job). The fediverse is entirely about choice; if different instances want to have a different default look and feel then that’s great and new users can pick one they like the look of, but insisting that everyone should have the one that you think is best isn’t a meaningful or helpful change.

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      3 hours ago

      You’re taking zero choice away from people, All I’m asking for is better defaults and guidance

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      3 hours ago

      I’m not saying everyone should have the one I think is best.

      I’ve said many times I don’t have the solution, it’s just painfully obvious that what we have now sucks. (goes against basic UX principles)

      I’m saying the instances that care about not filtering out non tech savvy people, and that want to attract more users, should care and put some effort into this.