Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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People need to stop sending people to "join ___" sites. I get why they are, or at least were, necessary, but they're totally superfluous when users are making recommendations to other users.
Just recommend a website for them to join. Word of mouth + systematized signup makes zero sense.
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When half the posts in your feed are "X instance bad" people get just tired and go out.
It has happened to me sometimes a meaningful part of my feed was just people brigading about some instance they don't like. It's ridiculous.
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You did it, you saved Lemmy
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That happened to me in the reddit exodus, I switched to Lemmy and faced a lot of analysis paralysis, ended up in Lemmy.world out of spite and then I regretted my decision.
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The analysis paralysis of having to pick an instance is definitely the biggest hurdle in my opinion. I don't think a read-only instance is the solution though, at least not one that requires registration. That just adds another step, which I think would further confuse people. The simplest way to onboard new people is to just shove them onto the biggest instance, but I know that kind of goes against the ideology and creed of the fediverse. There were endless debates about it during the Reddit exodus of 2023.
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That's fair I guess. I remember that. That was around the same time as well, so someone registered to say Beehaw or Hexbear during the Threads fediverse announcement period would probably get the idea that federation wars is all that's going, at least if they stopped visiting Lemmy shortly thereafter.
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How old are you?
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Two things can be true at the same time.
Yes reddit doesn't care about their users.
But also the old reddit is worse for the vast majority of people
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I'll be ditching reddit completely after 16th of April. Till then I'm slowly doing my migration. Lemmy is awesome.
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If you mention Lemmy, point someone towards a specific instance so it's not so much of a shock. Then they can slowly learn about what it is.
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Why April 16th?
