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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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Which server do you want to use is like asking "Do you want Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo for email?" it really isn't that big of a deal, but maybe people these days have a hard time doing that too...
While I agree in general, there is a bit more as unlike email... Defederation is a thing.
They don't really need to know about that until they have had time on Lemmy to hear about what those defederated instances actually do
It will definitely impact their experience though, doesn't matter if they know or not imo
If they look at the "all" feed they'll see 90% of the same stuff from 90% of instances.
Once (from experience) they learn what they want from an instance, they can always switch.