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?

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    485·
    7 days ago

    Aren’t you guys sick of forced infinite growth in every aspect of our collective existence? The Fediverse is not shareholder owned, we don’t have to be slaves to The Red Line That Must Go Up. Reddit went to shit when it was aggresively mainstreamed, I don’t want it to happen to lemmy as well.

    • BuckenBerry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      6 days ago

      The problem is that in order to become a proper reddit replacement Lemmy needs enough users to create niche communities.

      There are plenty of active communities related to technology and politics but there is no equivalent to r/batmanarkham or r/letgirlshavefun.

      Plus there are plenty of communities that are all but abandoned. We need more people to actually be a proper forum.

      • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        6 days ago

        Doing a 1/1 recreation of niche communities from reddit is a fools errand. Let communities develop on their own, or even better, simply federate existing communities.

      • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Ppl gotta stop saying stuff like this and spend their energy posting and making those communtiies instead, comment in new and growing communities, post in them at least subscribe and upvote/downvote, do something other than just complain (more of a blanket statement, than at you)

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      I agree with you, but at the same time if there aren’t enough users, small and niche sublemmys will never grow and have enough content to be interesting.

      • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        91·
        6 days ago

        Once upon a time Reddit used to be just a single subreddit. And it was fine. Lemmy already has enough users for separate subreddits to be actually kinda viable, even if they are not too active.

        We’ll be fine.

    • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Exactly, I feel the mindset of ‘line must go up or you die’ is really ingrained in people’s minds. Even if everyone leaves for something else lemmy will still be here, slowly getting better with updates and time.

      Doesn’t matter how many people use it. As long as even 1 person wants to use lemmy it will be here…