I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
Lots of problems here… I’m an experienced Mastodon user, and I have to say that I correctly predicted my experience with Lemmy.
It’s not optimized for mobile, it’s a lot of work to find what you want, and whereas Mastodon seems like an improvement on Twitter, this seems like a step back from Reddit.
Reddit also has an issue with finding subreddits, but Google indexes it and you can pretty easily find and subscribe to things just using keywords.
We need better app UIs ASAP, that make basic functions obvious and easy. It’s a platform that probably does great on PC but I’m stuck with Jerboa, and it’s really killing my enjoyment.
Better UIs is definitely one of the main problems for mass adoption I would say. I don’t have any trouble using it myself, but it can be a bit clunky.