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 wasn’t always the reddit we know today. It went through a lot of changes over the years, a lot of improvements. I see lemmy (and lemmy.one) as in that early stage. I had hoped to bring people with me from the exchristian community on reddit, but it doesn’t look like I’m going to be very successful.
Which isn’t to say that I’m giving up. Just that it’s not going to be as easy as I hoped.
As an ex-christian, I am glad to see /exchristian go in its Reddit state.