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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] 1 points 1 week ago

I personally love Alexandrite.app as a UX. I'm so used to it that I get confused when I follow a link and see a default Lemmy instance, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

For me, a major issue is federation control. On Mastodon & co, I can mute entire instances, cutting out A LOT of bullshit. On Lemmy, if I want that kind of control, I need to run my own instance. Doable, but kinda overkill.

It's one thing to hide individual subreddits on a centralised platform. It's another thing entirely to have many sites building a big platform, with the same communities duplicated with different rules and followings. That's just a game of wack-a-mole at that point.

And if I don't like the instance's communities, chances are I don't want to interact with its users either, leading to even more wack-a-mole.

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