cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55413416
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?
I cannot emphasise this enough - yes, there are real problems, too. But our senses might be overtuned to find reasons of "why don't people join." One big part of the reality is - most people don't like unfamiliar things and will rationalise their intuitive disliking with any arguments, often even ones they haven't experienced themselves, but heard about.
Again - not saying there aren't problems that need addressing, but there's a real risk of needlessly internalising every bad thing said about Lemmy, when it may sometimes just be unfounded, intuitive dislike instead of proper thought out critique.
People are still on Twitter while the owner makes Nazi salutes and Bluesky is a 1:1 replacement feature-wise with a modern interface. People just don’t like to move.