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Let’s compose a list of the all shortcomings so that we can address them and eventually hit 100k mau.

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[–] Name@feddit.nu 13 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Finding instances for sure. Just learned in this thread that sorting by 'all' doesn't show me every instance

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 23 points 19 hours ago (28 children)

The politics is very left wing and very unwelcoming to any other viewpoint.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed, basically if you are moderate, you have to block 2 or 3 major instances to escape from extremist content. That's very unwelcoming for new users.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

The fact that many on the internet haven’t gotten past the largest hurdle, creating a Lemmy account.

We’re currently at 462k created accounts.

[–] Name@feddit.nu 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it always that >95% of users are lurkers? I don't bother logging in most of the time, I just go to lemmy.world or something and sort by all

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I said this a while ago on another thread, but if I was a Dev on the project I would be working to create a website that automatically signs you up for an instance. The high level concept is instances would opt into this pool, the user would simply put in their username like any regular website, and then the system would create them an account on whichever instance was best for them (maybe based on ping/trying to spread population around).

This would majorly reduce the barrier to entry in my opinion, because a lot of people just want to browse, and don't care about the federation aspect at all.

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[–] Pechente@feddit.org 21 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

The default web interface is very poorly designed and looks uninviting. Sure, there are great alternative interfaces but people will be turned off before they could check them out. Also, it's usually the first thing you see when someone's sharing a link.

There not being an official app is also something that will confuse non-tech users.

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The default web interface is very poorly designed and looks uninviting.

A redesign is on the way. It will use Leptos with DaisyUI.

There not being an official app is also something that will confuse non-tech users.

Jerboa is official.

[–] Wardacus16@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is Jerboa official? I used it at the start but it seemed to just stop getting developed. Myself and plenty of others have since moved on to other 3rd party apps. I'm using Voyager now.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 18 hours ago

The default web interface is very poorly designed and looks uninviting.

Disagree. I find it rather clean and functional, even on mobile. Maybe because I liked old reddit. Maybe younger people are used to Instagram-like feeds so they don't like the compact forum style.

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Many instances have domain names that look invalid and/or like scam sites to non-techies. Dot world? Dot social? Dot [obscure country TLD]? There's also no guarantees that the domain will indicate that it's a Lemmy site. Both of these become problematic with sharing, as the default (? been a while since I've used the web interface) share function links to the poster's instance and not the community instance. A year and a half ago, the shared links section in my messenger was mostly a Reddit flood. Today, it looks like someone spilled alphabet soup.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Just today I was about to share a link and the URL was like "shit just works" and I was like damn, fuck that, I can't share this shit. Not even joking

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Too many terrorist simps, too much mod abuse, too much disinformation, too many Tankies, discovery of communities is hard with how federation works and kinda requires third party apps.

[–] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 11 hours ago

I believe it's just obnoxious trolling users who've been banned multiple times from Reddit now come flooding here to pull their shit again.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago

When they post asking for help with Windows and get an entire thread of answers from obnoxious elitist wankers who couldn't even decide on a distro between them

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Generally mods of the communities still suck to an absolute extent, not as bad as reddit but still nowhere near acceptable.

I hate not being informed of bans, and I think they are all permanent.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

They're not all permanent, Lemmy displays the duration in the mod log. I agree that there should be some kind of notification though.

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