I use Kbin, so my experience is a little different, but do Lemmy instances not have default communities? If not, that seems like a pretty good addition, but if so, then I think that experience is going to be largely dictated by the individual instance you’re signing up with.
Probably some central home page. That has a set of communities.
I think the most common complaint from new users is that it’s too complicated and “I can’t find anything”
If there was just a reddit front page esque thing going on I think the barrier to entry would be lower.
I use Kbin, so my experience is a little different, but do Lemmy instances not have default communities? If not, that seems like a pretty good addition, but if so, then I think that experience is going to be largely dictated by the individual instance you’re signing up with.