This is not going to be a blogpost about "Why do people still use Reddit instead of everyone moving to Lemmy?". I noticed that even with Mastodon users, who already understand and like the advantages of decentralized platforms, the usage of Lemmy is extremely small, and more people use Reddit. Most of them haven't even heard of Lemmy. To be fair, the Reddit usage also seems to be fairly low.

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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 22 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The UX still has a long way to go.

I'm very tolerant of shitty tech and like a struggle, and even I am often like wtf.

Signed up to piefed.zip the other day, and the default feed is just horrendous

Most users will just quit instead of trying to figure out how to fix it manually.

No proper onboarding

[–] aizakku@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When you onboard onto Reddit it asks interests and points users to subreddits. I don't think anything like that exists on Lemmy, but could be a good thing for the less tech inclined.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 7 hours ago

definitely, it would help setup default subscriptions, and even default blocks would be very nice

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

Alexandrite is pretty great