I mean, almost all social media has a learning curve but Lemmy is one that if you don’t put in the effort you’re not going to learn it and use it. It’s not seamless to master.
Design for it is an offshoot of what developers made that work for them. There’s a gap between that and what the lay person who grew up with phone apps are willing to put up with.
I know Lemmy will grow and develop. But there’s going to be a bleed off of active users from these waves of new members. I’m hoping that the communities grow fast and that the phone app is designed with the average high school kid or octogenarian in mind.
If I wasn’t a kid who grew up figuring out driver issues or the blue screen of death in Windows all of the time I may have moved on after my first couple of hours with Lemmy.
Truly. I want to see the platform grow and flourish. But it has some hurdles.
Reddit was not exactly easy to use in the beginning. In fact the classic interface was kinda a disaster, even if it was still better than new.reddit
To some people it all hinges on the app. If you can develop a masterful app for their iPhone or Android then most of everything else is secondary. Unlike early adopters that’ll punch anything through a browser on multiple devices.
What’s nice is that anyone can make an app