Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it'll become big
Just use a 3rd party app and pick the experience you prefer.
Which 3rd party app?
The average user needs to be spoon fed, choosing between 5+ different apps is confusing and takes mental load etc.
Everything just needs to work, with barely any thought put in (defaults for everything)
And once they're using the platform they can change defaults if they like.
Currently there aren't defaults, or the defaults suck (Eg lemmy.world web UI)
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
I've found a good 3rd party web app, Alexandrite.app although that's just another hurdle to entry like picking an instance. The official web UI should be much better.
Yea there are just way too many hurdles
Try a.lemmy.world
Nice, that's actually exactly the UI alaxandrite.app gives lemmings.world
The frontend and the backend are separate, so people can design new ones and many instances run alternate frontends, we do here:
The default needs to be nice, most users would get frustrated and give up before discovering a. Or p.
Thanks for that. It's a good point. There's no reason we couldn't run something like Photon as the default, which would be a smoother user experience. Might see what I can do about that.