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?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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Having to choose a server and it influencing what content you can see is the biggest UX issue, not the availability of apps.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Under normal circumstances, I would suggest to new users to signup on the "flagship instance", but in Lemmy's case… nah.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not certain what content I'm not seeing because, well, I haven't seen it 😅. Some instances seem to do a good job of only blocking content from notoriously bad sources.
That's the thing though, it's the luck of the draw and you might be unlucky and sign up to a bad instance and then it's too late, first impression has been made and the user just goes back to Reddit.
AFAIK, you're able to see pretty much everything on your instance, but Beehaw did defederate from your instance, so I think you can see their posts, but they can't see yours.