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?

  • Endmaker@ani.socialEnglish
    8·
    7 hours ago

    We don’t want to send everyone to the same instance otherwise it’ll end up becoming dominant (see Lemmy World)

    From what I’ve learnt in network science, I’ve got bad news for you: real-world networks tend to follow power-law distributions.

    Lemmy, being a social network, is unlikely to be an exception. Some instances are going to become hubs and the rest would be peripheral.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Sadly you’re probably right. It would be nice if there were some load balancing mechanism where restrigrations could be shut for the larger instances where it recognises that it’s grown much larger than the rest, and recommend altnerative instances.