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?

  • Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Uh yeah. I’ve got no clue how to find new communities? Instances? Groups? Whatever the hell the equivalent of a subreddit is called. It’s not user friendly at all.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Whatever the hell the equivalent of a subreddit is called.

      That’s communities. Did you have issues with the communities link at the top of the page? You can switch it to the “All” view.

      Also what the other comments said is good too, like for finding a very niche community I’ll use https://lemmyverse.net/communities

      • Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        I can browse the All feed but not much interests me there. I’ve found a few on my instance and stumbled upon some from other instances via links in posts but if I find a community on something like the website you posted I have no idea how to get there and subscribe to the community. I try to paste the link into the search but that just treats it like a keyword to search my instance.

        • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          could you give me an example of which community doesn’t work?

          you should be able to paste the !communityname@instancename.com into the search, it may take a few seconds even after it says “no results found”, because remote searches can take a while

          you can also copy-paste the full URL to the community into the search, like https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor