For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I don’t think it’s too complicated, but it is noticeably more complicated than joining traditional social media. People often get immediately freaked out by the whole concept of instances. I know everybody keeps trying to use the email comparison, but that just is not working. People cannot connect the dots between email and something like Instagram.

    • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
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      28 days ago

      I remember joining reddit when it had the old interface and thinking that it is super unintuitive and complicated compared to all other social media. This didn’t stop reddit from growing and i don’t think lemmy will be restricted by this in the long run. People generally are just not aware of the fediverse and how it works yet but they will get used to it.

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Reddit’s complexity was always vastly overstated. You can login and be posting in seconds in a way that you simply can’t with the fediverse

        • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
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          28 days ago

          The only additional step you have on lemmy is choosing an instance and honestly it does not even matter that much which you choose. I’m not saying it’s trivial but it is nothing that is inherently more difficult.

          Reddit was really strange compared to everything else a few years ago. It only appears easy now because we are familiar with the concept of subreddits now.

            • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
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              27 days ago

              What I’m trying to say is that every social network has it’s quirks that you just need to learn. The willingness to learn also depends on how attractive the platform is. With time i see no reason for lemmy to not grow like reddit did.

              If you just google “Lemmy” one of the first results is https://join-lemmy.org/ where you are directed to an instance that suits you. Far from perfect but Lemmy is still young.

              People probably don’t even really need to understand federation. They just need sane defaults to get started and work from there.

        • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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          27 days ago

          No you cant, karma requirements bud, try making a new account and posting/commenting anywhere?

          • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            27 days ago

            I’m down to have a serious conversation but please don’t be patronizing with that “bud” crap

            That also doesn’t make any sense. You can’t get karma without posting or commenting. They put a temporary cap on how frequently you can post. Individual subs sometimes have their own karma threshold rules yes, but they also tell you they do.

            • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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              27 days ago

              I don’t want to have any kind of conversation with you just here to speak my mind and make you reas it