Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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?
Using Boost for Lemmy and it's almost like I never switched.
This 100%. And there are other former-reddit-3rd party apps as well afaik
Voyager for iOS feels just like Alien Blue/Apollo
Yea but imo that's part of the problem. I use sync because it makes it easy, but I've tried to figure out how to access lemmy on desktop and it's non-trivial (I still haven't bothered to figure it out, I've given up multiple times)
Copy past that into your browser, then log in with your username and password?
I'm not very tech savvy compared to a lot of Lemmings but I'm definitely above average. So I'm not trying to throw shade, just trying to help. The more people who get the hang of things is the more people who can teach others how to do it.
There reportedly are some slowness issues for people in the USA, where most Redditors would be coming from? Perhaps the updates currently in progress and still planned will help.
Same...though it seems to do some weird stuff like not marking DMs read, or not having an easy way to embed a photo that's already hosted somewhere (and my instance seems a bit conservative with size limits).
Still, it's a solid app, and the only way I interacted with reddit.
For the android users : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Edit: ohhh, this may be better than Sync...