Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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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I'm not getting what the UX problems are, and if you change things aren't there just going to be new problems with the changes? I think the default experience is a lot better than Reddit at least.
It might not be a bad experience for you, but it's a bad experience for what looks like the vast majority of people. Don't take my word for it, look at the hundreds of upvotes in the post I shared.
It's on a Bluesky community, there's a serious bias in those votes
OK but that's still no explanation. I want to understand the problem deeper than "it's bad".
Here's a great explanation: https://lemmy.ca/comment/14524858
Most of those things are kind of a matter of taste though aren't they? If you change those kinds of things you'll get other people complaining who like it as it is now. For example for me I think the default UI is excellent and the alternative ones I've tried are mostly terrible, but I know not everyone thinks the same way.
Other complaints are instance-specific but that's a good thing; instances can operate how they like because we have a choice, that's the whole benefit to Lemmy and federation.
