For a sub that’s supposed to promote Reddit alternatives, there sure is a lot of pessimism on there. I see so many people dismissing Lemmy and kbin already for being too inaccessible, the UI is clunky, it’s hard to pick up etc and saying these sites will never take off. But why? Of course a platform in its infancy will have hurdles to overcome, and it takes time for devs to implement all the QOL features to make the site more intuitive. And when I see people trying to explain how Lemmy works, people just respond “Too complicated, I’m not reading all that etc.”
Do people expect a fully functional Reddit clone with all the same features to conveniently exist somewhere they can hop to? Do people not realise that Reddit itself was just as confusing when users migrated from Digg all those years ago? Do they not realise sites take time to mature?
RedditAlternatives is the only subreddit I still use because I want to help people make the jump, but it’s kinda disheartening seeing the attitudes there. Anyone has a more optimistic take on this?
What makes it hard isn’t really about the federation, but that there are many internet users that haven’t dealt with how the internet works outside of a top sites experience, but have an expectation set. The complaint is literally “I am illiterate about this and it’s your fault”.
This is something you will see a lot of in gaming Let’s Plays as the first time player removed for the first 5-10 minutes about how nothing makes sense. Then they run into an interaction they like and shut up for the rest of the playthrough.