What are the “complexities” people are talking about when they say that lemmy won’t catch on? Yes there were some stability issues and bugs in the last couple of days but that’s just a bit of growing pains. I don’t see how lemmy is harder to use than reddit. Like you google “lemmy”, first link is https://join-lemmy.org/, you click Join a Server and then you see “You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server/instance.” so then you just pick one of the instances and create an account.
Presenting multiple signup options is already asking a lot of the average user, particularly when you see some have different rules/signup requirements/user counts.
Though the question is, does Lemmy even want that type of user to join?
You pointed out all the extra complexities. Visiting multiple websites, and making a decision, and understanding what the decision means. Those are the complexities, nobody is saying they are big but even you recognize they exist.
I’m brand new here. I created logins at 3 instances. It’s not clear that you only need to log into one instance. Then communities are only discoverable if someone already linked to it on your instance. If I’m understood it right. All that to say-that’s a lot more friction to Signup and be scrolling entertaining content compared to Reddit. I’m trying to move mostly here, but there are some support communities on Reddit only. Finding new communities is definitely more complex than Reddit.
I’m here here for it, but let’s recognize there is a learning curve that will turn people off with limited time and mental bandwidth to pickup a new thing for fun.
Then communities are only discoverable if someone already linked to it on your instance.
That’s a good point. The community search could really be improved. And it’s also a bit of a problem that currently the number of subscribers for a community that you see is only the number of subscribers from your home instance.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
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What are the “complexities” people are talking about when they say that lemmy won’t catch on? Yes there were some stability issues and bugs in the last couple of days but that’s just a bit of growing pains. I don’t see how lemmy is harder to use than reddit. Like you google “lemmy”, first link is https://join-lemmy.org/, you click Join a Server and then you see “You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server/instance.” so then you just pick one of the instances and create an account.
Presenting multiple signup options is already asking a lot of the average user, particularly when you see some have different rules/signup requirements/user counts.
Though the question is, does Lemmy even want that type of user to join?
To be honest, you can explain this to anyone fairly quickly, at least when you have someones irl attention. Maybe not your grandparents
But who cares, they weren’t really active on social medias anyway
You pointed out all the extra complexities. Visiting multiple websites, and making a decision, and understanding what the decision means. Those are the complexities, nobody is saying they are big but even you recognize they exist.
The funny part is people won’t realize the mistake they make and rush into the first account they see. Now that’s an issue.
I’m brand new here. I created logins at 3 instances. It’s not clear that you only need to log into one instance. Then communities are only discoverable if someone already linked to it on your instance. If I’m understood it right. All that to say-that’s a lot more friction to Signup and be scrolling entertaining content compared to Reddit. I’m trying to move mostly here, but there are some support communities on Reddit only. Finding new communities is definitely more complex than Reddit.
I’m here here for it, but let’s recognize there is a learning curve that will turn people off with limited time and mental bandwidth to pickup a new thing for fun.
That’s a good point. The community search could really be improved. And it’s also a bit of a problem that currently the number of subscribers for a community that you see is only the number of subscribers from your home instance.