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I think people who want to signup for something will not ask this many questions, they will just jump in. These are often just excuses to stay complacent on Reddit.

Edit: they signed up! They were just being analytical I guess.

  • Special Wall@midwest.socialEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    I kind of have to sympathize with this commenter. Although I don’t agree that federated social media is very difficult, it is definitely more confusing than normal social media. I would consider myself to be more technical than the majority of people, and even I had a confusing time switching from traditional social media to federated platforms.

    If the goal is to have these platforms become more mainstream (which I would love to see personally), then there does need to be simpler ways to use them, or at least better, more concise explanations.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comOPEnglish
      20·
      5 days ago

      I think the confusion arises when people try to optimize maximum usage of “Lemmy” instead of just hearing someone say “hey join midwest.social it’s fun, I’ll see you there”, and then they say “ok” and signup and use it as-is, like the old forum days. Don’t even need to use the word “Lemmy”.

      They probably weren’t optimally using Reddit to its fullest potential, yet they won’t even dip their toe into Lemmy until they have a perfectly optimal gameplan of maximizing their usage of Lemmy better than anyone ever has before. Just jump in! You don’t have to be perfect, just click around and upvote and leave comments.

    • Lumu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      5 days ago

      Spreading the word about it and maybe simplifying the process a little is good, but I don’t think the goal should be to become mainstream. Then you just end up with Reddit again, fediverse or not. Having a small technological literacy test to filter people out and keep communities somewhat small isn’t necessarily bad, it keeps things higher quality and focused by ensuring only people willing to put in at least a tiny bit of effort join. Like how, on Reddit, the “default” subreddits were complete garbage, but the smaller communities people had to put in some effort to find actually tended to have good content.