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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] 126 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Been using Lemmy for a couple of years, not seen this once.

Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.

These people are just stakeholders in Reddit. They are afraid of change, or losing any rep they have. They sit on a pile of useless upvotes.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people that think the UX is different from reddit weren't on reddit 14 years ago when it did look very similar to this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I barely remember reddit on PC. Except for people trying to convince me bitcoin would be valuable - and me thinking they were foolish. I would have sold at $25, anyways.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The UX once you figure out what works for you in Lemmy is nice, the UX getting to that point is terrible, as many have said. Most will quit before getting to the good part.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

99% of gamblers quit right before they win big /j

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the UX of alexandrite, Voyager or even the Voyager web app for PC are sublime. I don't see any difference from reddit tbh.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Really? You never ran into the endless "...furthermore, .ml must be defederated" posts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same vibe as Cato in the Roman Senate: ml delenda est

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cofigure swipes to hide posts and just swipe them out? Idk, it's not hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You can say the same thing about reddit but people still bitch about it constantly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, sure, especially if it's the same few users. It's just mildly surprising to not even run into them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.

The default one is a bit minimal, but we have many Alternative UIs are as modern looking as new Reddit.

They also work much better while being modern looking. There's a reason so many of us came over here when they got rid of third party apps, the new Reddit interface is... bad.