Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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So that basically just leaves lemmy.world
I guess the question is: what's more important: trying to avoid putting most users on a single instance, or just accept that people are going to see some hexgrad nonsense in their feeds?
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Lmao, so true. Buhh my user experience!! As if consuming endless amounts of garbage on reddit is a good experience.
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This is fantastic thank you, I've created an account. I like the onboarding
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What did people say when you posted and asked for help?
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At this point I am lacking motivation to change. Why bother switching now?
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Some instances have very different rules on them that would affect your experience. Like not allowing downvotes, for example. Blahaj users can't see downvotes or downvote anything themselves.
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Why do we want more users? Because lemmy is insufferable. Im here, like many others, waiting for an alternative to reddit and hoping im already there.
No we dont need gatekeeping based on a users understanding federated servers. We need more people so the smaller communities actually have posts and we dont need to scroll the dumpster fire that is "everything".
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A counterargument to this is that a lot of people (who would put in the minimal effort) don't come here instead of Reddit because their niche community isn't represented well. So while it's nice to have higher effort/engagement members, you can't possibly cover all of what most people want to see without a lot of those.
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If a small, one time pop-up designed to solve your problem makes you give up on solving your problem then you were never going to solve that problem.
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Have you tried https://piefed.social/ ? Compatible with Lemmy (allows you to import your subscriptions list actually) and with a different approach: https://join.piefed.social/blog/
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Three is better than none. as long as the community exist and has some kind of activity even one post a month with three comments, you are doing your part to create a viable home for those who share your niche interest. In three months you might get up to 6 people, in 9 months 10, one year later 15. Its difficult going from passive consumer to one of the few active posters but you truly are adding value to the space just by trying.
Lemmy users like to present lemmy vs reddit usage as all or nothing, its not. Realistically you still use reddit for the niche communities that arent getting much interaction here. I do for locallama and dynavap. But ideally you cross post to the lemmy communities to add content here too so that those like you have a better chance to find a home.
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Hot take - I don't blame them. The who's federated with who and who can see what, and how it works is confusing as absolute fuck and extremely poorly explained.
