Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

Edit: I do think terminology is a bit of an issue. I can tell a lot of people don’t understand “instance” vs. “community” at first. “Magazine” is the biggest offender here. That’s a very unintuitive term.

  • Manticore@readit.buzz
    2·
    1 year ago

    A greater percentage of reddit is younger than some of them realise. So many redditors are going to be used to new reddit, and plug-and-play services in general. Kbin and Lemmy look like old.reddit, and they require them to understand the concept of what a ‘server’ is to even get started. This is knowledge they’ve never needed before to use the services they want to use.

    Imagine spending all your life eating McDonald’s and then somebody told you homemade burgers are way better quality, taste better, cheaper, etc; then when you ask how to get a taste of those bad boys they start with informing you that you’d need to grill them. It’s not hard, it’s just new.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    People want to have one account and one website for all of the things and can’t mentally handle that seperate communities and even servers exist for given subjects. They also expect to be bombarded with ragebait constantly by some algorithm and it seems weird to them that they have to go to effort here to get that.

    To be kinda fair it is a bit clunky still to fully interact cross instance in some aspects.

    Edit: ugh Lemmy is currently randomly showing me 30d old stuff mixed in with newer posts. +1 to the bugs I guess.