My experience with Lemmy feels like my experience with Linux. I’m a nerd at heart and have played with a thousand variants of Linux over the decades. But as much as Linux is sold as the next Windows/MacOS, it never gets to that level. Trying to get people to understand the quirks of Linux (and why they are “better”) has been an act in futility. Linux just isn’t user-friendly, no matter the variant.
I see so many posts of people trying to understand what Lemmy is, what an instance is, why usernames are not unique (unless you include the server name - like email), etc. I just see it all as a huge hurdle to overcoming Reddit.
I’d be thrilled to be wrong.
It took me 10 years to feel comfortable with the Linux command line, from my first brush with it until now.
I first created an account here on Lemmy 3 years ago and promptly forgot about it until a few days ago.
I did not have anywhere near the time-sink needed to adjust to Lemmy compared to Linux.