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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?

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Love old.lemmy.world

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Facebook has servers all over the world; there's not just one Facebook server although it appears to users like that. What would be the effect of asking (potential) Facebook users which server they would like to join?

In a somewhat related question, does anyone know how the extra-instance account transfer request is going? Not sure where to look to find out.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

extra-instance account transfer request is going?

You mean settings or content?

Settings have been exportable for a while now.

Content cannot be and probably never will. Even Mastodon doesn't allow it:

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse Activity Streams 2.0 documents.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use the Boost app for Lemmy so it basically feels exactly like the ideal Reddit experience felt back then, which is fantastic.

As for being put off, the only thing that really bothers me is the extreme hatred for Windows and the deepthroating of Linux. It's creepy.

Like, I love Linux and use it for many things alongside Windows, but I don't get obsessively weird about it to the point of creating memes or going out of my way to tell people why they're wrong for using one over the other, you know?

If that were toned down I'd certainly feel a little more relaxed, but on the whole the Lemmy experience has been lovely <3

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I use eternity, used infinity beforehand so it basically felt like no change when migrating (eternity is a lemmy fork of infinity)

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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Good! The last thing we need is the Facebook crowd.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Fuck the top comment. Old.Reddit is the only tolerable way to access that shithole. What "bells and whistles" do you want? It's a fucking link aggregator.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Wah wah it's so hard to pick a server!"

JUST LIKE EMAIL YOU NITWIT!

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