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?

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    9 hours ago

    I specifically remember looking up tables of who defederates from who and what instances allow NSFW or downvoting because this was an issue among some of the top instances back then.

    I ended up making 4 different accounts over 2 months until I landed on a server I’m happy with. That will never be acceptable to any normal user.

    Every time someone brings up these issues, people here downplay them like you are doing it right now and nothing is ever done about it.

    • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      This, the survivor bias is absurdly high around lemmy.
      This is my fourth instance because, for some reason, it’s extremely hard to find an instance that defeds the 3 main propaganda instances, allows porn/hentai, piracy talk, weed and isn’t too pissy about downvotes.

      Still I am thinking about leaving lemmy due to a complete lack of content for my country other than government propaganda… And I don’t feel comfortable creating a community for the same reason and there doesn’t seem to be anyone else from my country so… Nobody who cared about it (or who could help me mod).

      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        defeds the 3 main propaganda instances, allows porn/hentai, piracy talk, weed and isn’t too pissy about downvotes.

        You indeed made the good choice, Lemmy.cafe is the one

        Still I am thinking about leaving lemmy due to a complete lack of content for my country other than government propaganda…

        Why not use both Lemmy and another platform?

        • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          You indeed made the good choice, Lemmy.cafe is the one

          Yeah, it only took me 4 tries and I still am ready to jump ship if needed.

          Why not use both Lemmy and another platform?

          Already am, but at least on Reddit the mods can pretend to ban/control the propaganda accounts, but over here they are the only ones posting content (for my country) and that’s tiring… the rest of the content is the same here and Reddit, so I feel more inclined to stay on Reddit since I don’t really post anything anyway (I don’t even comment over there anymore) and Lemmy feels like something I rather delete more and more… been thinking about PieFed, but the same problem as everything Fediverse, I have to pick a goddamn instance and I don’t have energy for that for now.