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Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For that side of reddit, you're right.

But for the uniquely useful side of reddit, federation won't help. If I post a question like "how do I get this obscure game to run well on this obscure Linux distro?", nobody is going to repost that for me, and if I don't maximize the amount of eyeballs on it, it's unlikely I'll get an answer. My best choice is to post it on reddit, either in /r/linux_gaming or in the specific game's subreddit.

I assume that most users who post anything at all on reddit do it to ask questions like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

And for some reason it seems like half of all distro specific communities are on .ml