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?

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    5 hours ago

    Read only instance would put them off too. The best solution, IMO:

    • create a pool of instances that will act as the default ones
    • when creating an account, create it on one of the instances, redirect the user there
    • add an option to migrate an account to a different instance in case the user wants to choose a different one after a month or so
    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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      5 hours ago

      By read-only, I mean they couldn’t create any communities. So essentially it would be an instance that has accounts but nothing else. Users would still be able to vote and comment on other commnities and subscribe. They could stay on it if they wanted to, but of course they wouldn’t be able to create any communities.