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.
but we are still talking about signing up for a service using a web site, somthing that virtually everyone is familiar with.
i think the biggest onboarding issue is home instance selection. perhaps a randomized preselect would help, but has issues of its own that would have to minimized.
additionally, easy to use account migration between instances would possibly make home instance selection less harrowing.