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?

  • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    People like to commit, though. They want to commit. They want to make an account and be done. The ability for established users and communities to move around is a great feature that makes Lemmy superior to other sites, but it really needs to work on making new users feel comfortable enough to stay put when they’re first figuring things out, because if a new user decides to leave, they’re probably not switching instances, they’re switching platforms.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Having the ability to export your account data (say to a CSV) might be useful for this reason.

      If you want to move to a new instance, you can pack your bags and head out.

      You can probably imagine how this won’t be a 1:1 transition, however, because the new instance might not have the same communities as the old instance. I commented on another thread about how it would be cool if Lemmy took your communities list, looked at how those communities federate for instance (or just do a word search on the new instance with names of the communities of the old instance), and serve you suggested new communities to subscribe to.

      And if you can export your data, then there’s no need to store it in a centralized way to make these types of actions doable, which favors privacy.