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I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can't be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we're just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won't attract any users.

And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.

Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking "Next" a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
And I've heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation.

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m_f@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
join-lemmy.org should really just have a “Join Lemmy” button that load balances between whatever general-purpose instances opt-in to being defaults. Then there should be a “Wait, I care about which server I join!” button that does the existing UX flow.

It should also default to not showing the weirder instances like hexbear or lemmygrad. That’s going to turn a lot of people off.

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That's exacly what I've been telling for some time now, as well.
  
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Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Those are all good ideas. One comment:

I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.

What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You're right. That's a good thing. At the same time it has a lot more "normal people" than other places on the internet, I frequent.
  
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  - Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:
    
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    hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nice one. Though, I think as one of the Linux nerds here, I should be wearing a hoodie and saying "Lemmy users are normal people". And I do get good answers here, regarding computer stuff. But it doesn't feel they're nearly as loud as in any single computer forum... Maybe the bell curve is closer to me. And the users who complain that it's too much Linux content are wrong?!
    
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Lemmy does not need a shitty UI.

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