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?

  • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    7 days ago

    I’m on three different instances and the sort by All-hot feed is nearly identical.

    I’m not on Beehaw or Hexbear, but those instances make it pretty well known they block a lot of other instances.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      Some instances have very different rules on them that would affect your experience. Like not allowing downvotes, for example. Blahaj users can’t see downvotes or downvote anything themselves.

      • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, true. But that’s cool. Having choice like that is great!

        But I suppose that’s the issue. Trying to keep signup simple to help drive user engagement. How much do you try to wrap someone’s head around such nuanced differences, and when do you say “just join me on my instance”?