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I mean, almost all social media has a learning curve but Lemmy is one that if you don't put in the effort you're not going to learn it and use it. It's not seamless to master.

Design for it is an offshoot of what developers made that work for them. There's a gap between that and what the lay person who grew up with phone apps are willing to put up with.

I know Lemmy will grow and develop. But there's going to be a bleed off of active users from these waves of new members. I'm hoping that the communities grow fast and that the phone app is designed with the average high school kid or octogenarian in mind.

If I wasn't a kid who grew up figuring out driver issues or the blue screen of death in Windows all of the time I may have moved on after my first couple of hours with Lemmy.

Truly. I want to see the platform grow and flourish. But it has some hurdles.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

100% this, and it's why I still used old.reddit.com, because the new reddit site is just awful.

What I will say is there is less "noise" on our lemmy/discussion forums, and distinctly higher quality posts. This is something we'd like to encourage long term, particularly when people ask questions already answered quite clearly on our website.