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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?
Potential hot take: Do we even want the majority of people here?
Not necessarily, but we don’t want a accidental filter that filters out non tech savvy people. We want all kinds of people on Lemmy
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.
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
I don’t really want them here, but I’d rather them be here than on reddit. Reddit is more toxic than this place and a lot of that comes top down. At least here people can spin off an instance the minute admins/mods act like dicks. There, the culture just gets worse and festers and it contributes to toxicity in the world outside itself. Imagine if the r/theDonald pricks have been ostracized and started their own instance which most instances defederated with quickly.
Eternal September.
I still recall the digg migration.
Sort of a hypocrite through cause I’m part of the Reddit 3rd Party API migration…
That’s a pretty good point. If it’s “too hard” to join up on here that sure is a good filter to keep out the Facebook ding dongs.
Thats my view, I prefer that Lemmy is small, I’ve had enough of the greater internet tbh
I still have to add ‘reddit’ to my searches when looking for niche issues, opinions, and reviews.
Would hope in the future I can add ‘lemmy’ instead and be rid of reddit for good
Yes, I want my niche communities back.
No. Too much attention here would be a bad thing with governments the world over leaning toward authoritarianism.
I thought that when I first joined, as the weeks pass, its turned into a no, I like the community here, reddit is just a headache that I was addicted to
Yeah… you people are nice. Thank you all fr it’s so refreshing and rare to meet nice people on the internet these days
thats how it got shitty, you get thousands of pointless comments, reposts and bot accounts upvoted to the front page