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?

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Who cares? If someone can’t figure out how to join a server, then I don’t want them here. If people think that reddit has some amazing UX, then I don’t want them here. If people think another corporate website (bluesky) will save us, then please stay away…

    The post about Lemmy has 500 upvotes while the crybaby replies only have like 100. I’ll happily take a ratio of 5 reasonable people joining Lemmy for every 1 weak baby staying on Reddit.

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      17 days ago

      …and the fediverse doesn’t need to dominate all social media. Period.

      You’ll never be able to migrate the IG influencer whose affiliate marketing business relies on the algorithm, or the Titkok million views dude who makes money off their views and lives. So I really don’t understand this argument of “Oh we’re alienating mass users”.

      Just like there’s non-profit orgs vs businesses, open source software vs commerical ones, there also fediverse vs commercial social media. I prefer it here, and to each their own.