Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
eta@feddit.org 2 days agoI remember joining reddit when it had the old interface and thinking that it is super unintuitive and complicated compared to all other social media. This didn’t stop reddit from growing and i don’t think lemmy will be restricted by this in the long run. People generally are just not aware of the fediverse and how it works yet but they will get used to it.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Reddit’s complexity was always vastly overstated. You can login and be posting in seconds in a way that you simply can’t with the fediverse
eta@feddit.org 2 days ago
The only additional step you have on lemmy is choosing an instance and honestly it does not even matter that much which you choose. I’m not saying it’s trivial but it is nothing that is inherently more difficult.
Reddit was really strange compared to everything else a few years ago. It only appears easy now because we are familiar with the concept of subreddits now.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You and I know this but people at first glance generally do not. Then you try to explain to them how Federation works and their eyes gloss over
eta@feddit.org 2 days ago
What I’m trying to say is that every social network has it’s quirks that you just need to learn. The willingness to learn also depends on how attractive the platform is. With time i see no reason for lemmy to not grow like reddit did.
If you just google “Lemmy” one of the first results is https://join-lemmy.org/ where you are directed to an instance that suits you. Far from perfect but Lemmy is still young.
People probably don’t even really need to understand federation. They just need sane defaults to get started and work from there.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Depending on the instance, you might have to put a little more work into it. Not that I’m saying that’s a problem - in my eyes that’s a feature.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 days ago
To be fair it is easy, if it allowed you to comment and didnt delete them lol
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 days ago
No you cant, karma requirementd bud, try making a new account and posting/commenting anywhere?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m down to have a serious conversation but please don’t be patronizing with that “bud” crap
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I don’t want to have any kind of conversation with you just here to speak my mind and make you reas it