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?
Lemmy users tend to forget linking to instances. It's usually much easier for someone to join if they know where to go
The one I use is: "Lemmy has 47k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"