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?

  • prof_wafflez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    138·
    9 days ago

    Assumptions, exaggerations and over-assertions being said by yours and others’ comments - and to be quite frank that toxic attitude turns me off of using Lemmy and the fediverse in the same way it turned me off of using reddit. Of all the communities I explore on Lemmy, this fediverse community is full of the kinds of posts and comments that would make the average person --or anyone, really-- assume this community is full of pompous jerks and isn’t worth exploring. Fediverse is not user friendly to the average person, whether or not the community ever wants to admit it - and until it finally admits as such and attempts solutions the fediverse will probably fail. Modern technology can be as agile as possible, but if the user experience is still unfriendly it simply does not work to peak efficiency. The bogus superiority complex here needs to be squashed.

    • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      9 days ago

      Damn right, I’m only on Lemmy because there isnt a better alternative, not because its great.

      The sad fact is that for social media to not suck you need moderation, for moderation not to suck they need to be paid mods, which means it has to make money somehow, which either means adds, subscriptions or mining user data…

      • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        81·
        9 days ago

        You don’t need paid mods. If you have a good community people will volunteer to moderate out of altruism, because they enjoy the community and want to make sure it stays good. Paid mods are actually worse than volunteer mods imo, because they don’t actually care as much.

        • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 days ago

          Volunteers are a double edged sword. At some volume of users and content it either needs to be a huge team of like minded volunteers which increases the likelihood of ye power tripping bastards or someone who is paid to do it and spend the time with rules to follow.