Well that’s the problem though isn’t it? If to use the website you need a literal tutorial, then something is fucked. I realize the irony of saying this on Lemmy, but the platform just isn’t very user friendly at all. Hell, you could say the same about the whole Fediverse, it’s an interesting idea and technology, but for the average person it’s too much of a hassle compared to normal social media.
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 month agoReddit isn’t really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.
Here’s one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t think of a single social media platform that hasn’t required me to search how to use it at some point. Twitter was like, “So I can send a text message to a website about what kind of soup I had for lunch? I don’t get it.” Facebook is regularly full of posts by people who don’t understand the platform. The internet itself had celebrity ads, and morning news show explainers.
The Fediverse in general does require a different way of thinking. More importantly, it requires advertising (or publicity, anyway). That is one big advantage corporate media will always have - ad money. But the Fediverse has us.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Well that’s definitely true in some areas, like the search bar (it’s just awful, not non-intuitive).