I think the default Lemmy UI scares away casual users. They don’t want to try out several alternate web UIs for a community they’re not yet invested in. They want a friendly-looking, easy UI out of the box, or they’ll leave.

Unpopular opinion: Lemmy should prompt people if they want to receive replies to their posts in their mailbox at signup. When you’re not yet in the habit of coming here regularly, Lemmy is easily forgotten.

Lastly, I recently heard someone say that Lemmy consists mostly of critical posts about big tech, politicians and billionaires. I find that type of content interesting sometimes, but I can are how it can be offputting. Lemmy definitely has a less positive, less casual, less diverse vibe than Reddit.

There are alternate web UIs?

Alexandrite is my favorite. Can also self host it.

• alexandrite.app
• github.com/sheodox/alexandrite

I don’t understand how I’m supposed to use it ? the read me is cryptic to me