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?

  • OtterAEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    It’s also less likely to happen now. Back when that happened, users didn’t have the ability to block instances and so it was up to the admins to do that for everyone.

    It’s now possible to block instances at the user level

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Not really though - that only mutes communities, while the users are still free to troll you by replying and generating notifications in posts sent to other communities.

      Worse, that protection has even weakened rather than strengthened over time - the notifications used to be blocked. I almost decided to leave Lemmy myself when I continued to receive notifications for WEEKS and WEEKS after accidentally responding to a post that I encountered in All - I hadn’t read the sidebar, I didn’t know about that instance, and so how was I supposed to know!?

      I did that in Lemmygrad, and then again in [email protected] - and after that, I very much understand why people say that we are miserable tankie trolls over here.

      It’s the Nazi bar effect: “We” might be fine, but there are places here that anyone can just wander into without any advanced notice of what will happen…and then they leave. And complain over in r/RedditAlternatives, warning others against attempting the same.

      And since it’s TRUE, we DESERVE this reputation. 100% of the people I’ve ever mentioned Lemmy to have outright chided me for having mentioned it. I can see why, with such bOtH sIdEs SaMe content as this:

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