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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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I think a good solution would be to randomly send people to one of the top 5 instances that aren't very political (What ever that might be)
According to https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy, the top 5 (where top 5 is defined by user count) are:
After there's:
Lemmy.world is pretty safe and generic, but it's already huge (173k users vs 33k of lemm.ee).
Lemm.ee is also a safe bet.
Hexbear is totally out of question
dbzer0 is great, but it leans heavily in a political direction
Federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
https://feddit.uk/post/23882306
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?
Only if you want top 10 instances.
sopuli.xyz and discuss.online both defederate hexbear and lemmygrad, are reliable and established
They are my recommendations nowadays
https://feddit.uk/post/23882306