Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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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?
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Just tell new users just sign up on your instance. Make it less confusing by sending them to a specific website and not just telling them about the software.
I swear to God, there are so many tech people here that overthink it because they know details that the average user would not give a single fuck about.
This exactly. Once I dove in and stopped reading, it oddly made more sense to me.
Create username and password Sign into preferred app from your favorite store.
I liked old reddit, and Baconreader, so for me Jerboa was great
Jerboa is awesome, and it's come a very long way in a really short timespan.
I like my instantce
