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?
Back in the day of AOL people had to pick what chat room they were going to use and then switch if it sucked. I think people that want to be here will make their way here over time.
I wonder what ever happened to Absolut1709...
Sure but we should still improve UX
The UX the way it currently is filters out non tech savvy people, so we mostly end up with tech savvy people here.
I downloaded sync and made an account through there. It automatically sent me to lemmy.world. It didn't even feel like a choice which might be what people migrating from reddit need.
I think this is the current best solution, Voyager does the same but defaults to lemm.ee, I point people there.
Is that a pretty smooth onboarding if we just simply tell people to download Voyager? I remember having to choose a server to log in on, which could trip people up. Does it just choose lemm.ee for you now? How long does it take for account approval on lemm.ee (another thing that seems to trip people up)? Sorry for all the questions, just trying to see how idiot proof this is lol. Would be great if we could just say -Download this app and follow the prompts!
You can ask on !meta@lemm.ee