Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy

[endmaker@ani.social]

We don't want to send everyone to the same instance otherwise it'll end up becoming dominant (see Lemmy World)

From what I've learnt in network science, I've got bad news for you: real-world networks tend to follow power-law distributions.

Lemmy, being a social network, is unlikely to be an exception. Some instances are going to become hubs and the rest would be peripheral.

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

And? We want all kinds of people on Lemmy not just 'skilled' people

[blackn1ght@feddit.uk]

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

[pyroneurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

[steve@communick.news]

[willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

[blackn1ght@feddit.uk]

Sadly you're probably right. It would be nice if there were some load balancing mechanism where restrigrations could be shut for the larger instances where it recognises that it's grown much larger than the rest, and recommend altnerative instances.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[halfapage@lemmy.world]

Ah, The Great Filter of Lemmy, yes.

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

If you have to explain a joke it loses its meaning.
If you have to explain UI, it loses its meaning.

It should be self explanatory.

People here say Lemmy's UX is fine, and then give a paragraph of instructions a user should follow to get started.
They should just be able to start scrolling immediately, and if they want to interact they should be asked to create an account, and a instance suggested.

[maalus@lemmy.world]

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

I'm sure you've seen some of the bad experiences new users have posted on here.

But I'll summarise

1. It's intimidating to pick a instance,
2. Once you login the UI is very different to what you're used to and not very intuitive.
3. No tutorial
   etc.

[rikudou@lemmings.world]

That doesn't help at all, I'd say. Most people won't ever create communities.

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

I wish just like NSFW filter, posts can be marked as Political, and users have the option to block all of that.

[fartswithanaccent@fedia.io]

[ledivin@lemmy.world]

[anonomouswolf@lemm.ee]

I'm 32 and work in tech, The reality is the vast majority of people won't want to use old.reddit style UI

I'm comfortable powering through shitty UI/UX etc. I've even built them myself, but others won't settle for shitty UI

You and your friends are old I assume, and got used to the old.reddit UI, and didn't want to change.

Most people are used to modern UI, and won't want to change to old UI, just like you don't want to change either. We should better cater for average people.