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?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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There's quite a few things we can do to improve the experience in the current default.
Eg. by optimising it's defaults, turning 'Auto expand media' on makes it a much smoother transition for people, and makes the site look more modern and not like a forum from 15 years ago.
The reality is, our UX is bad else top comments in the post I shared wouldn't look like that, and something needs to be done about it
What proportion of the potential new joiners are going to use the web UI compared to an app like Sync, Thunder or Arctic?
Not many I'm assuming. I like pointing people to Voyager because it's both on android and apple, and it has a very smooth UX, you can install and start scrolling
My message is often something like
` Checkout Lemmy, it's a solid reddit alternative. https://phtn.app/
If you want a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install `
Be careful that IIRC Reddit blocked the phtn URL and would automatically remove comments mentioning it.
Not sure if it's still the case now, but just a warning.