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• withabeard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This. So much of this.

  I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and… Shut the fuck up.

  App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.

  People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master

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• ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We can make our decentralised network more popular by centralising it feels like an own goal…

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re suggesting to your friends you can pick whichever instance you want, but the point is you should choose for them and don’t even tell them that there is a choice

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    • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, that is how I recommend linux distros to people :)

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It depends what you want. If you want lots of people to join, you need to make it easy to join.

    That doesn’t mean we need to get rid of decentralization. You could have a federated joining mechanism that assigned people randomly to any willing instance. Forcing the user to pick is the problem.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The trouble is a random joining procedure will absolutely launch users into unsuitable instances for their personality, political positions.

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• Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I followed the directions my instance of choice had posted, also use jeroba. It was a few steps, but the directions given were simple.

  I still don’t fully understand fediveration, but I knew even less when I began here a few years ago. I do like using jerboa

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, we need defaults tonget people signed up. When it’s too difficult for the average user, they’ll go where it’s easier.

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• Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I could not find Jerboa in the App Store. I use Voyager. We need Lemmy.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is such an underrated point. If we want people to join Lemmy, we need an app called Lemmy, on every platform. And if we want to steal users from Reddit, make the UI a clone of the reddit app but better. And allow people to join via the app, not some separate website.

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    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or maybe people just need to stop saying “Lemmy” and instead say “Voyager”, or “Boost for Lemmy” or whatever app they would suggest to use?

      It’s like Linux, I don’t suggest people to install Linux because that’s not a thing, I suggest they install Bazzite or Fedora KDE, or whatever I think will suit them best

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Most people would see “use Voyager or boost” to be akin to “use Reddit or Instagram”. Because why would there be more than one app to connect to the app.

        It’s wrong, but any time you break from a standard assumption you require thinking. Once you require thinking, you lose anyone who isn’t otherwise motivated.

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• Bischmeister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also SSO should be released with Lemmy 1.0. Then you can just login with your Google account

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