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    Oh come on, let’s not pretend that the fediverse is just super intuitive and easy for regular users (i.e. non-techie people). Same ridiculous notion as when people say Linux is just as user-friendly as the more mainstream OSes. It’s sad and I wish it was better but it’s just not right now.

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      3 months ago

      It might be a little more complicated than normal social media and email but it definitely is not that complex.

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        That “little more complicated” is asking for a lot, though.

        Say you’re coming from Reddit, or Facebook, or something.

        It would not be unreasonable to believe that, like Reddit, every single Lemmy instance is its own separate, self-contained site.

        And that’s even before figuring out federation works, and how to access things from outside of your instance, or all the nuances that come with defederation and all of that. You made the mistake of joining beehaw? Whoops, all the other “subs” are now inaccessible, because beehaw is not connected to any of the others.

        Central places like Reddit don’t have that complexity. Reddit communities are singular, and there’s no overarching layer to complicate things. A community that disagrees with another, and blocks them doesn’t affect your experience as an user.

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          People shouldn’t have suggested you Beehaw.

          Nowadays, I just say

          Lemm.ee is a Reddit alternative. There are apps you can use from https://www.lemmyapps.com/, just remember that your “instance” is lemm.ee. It works similar to Reddit".

          That’s it. No federation explanation, no Fediverse jargon. Keep it simple. Also, see my other comment below about an active community of non tech users

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        Sorry, but the fact that you’re here means that you are probably in the top percentages of tech-literate people. Especially considering you’re on programming.dev.

        You’re severely overestimating the technical literacy of regular people. For many people (maybe even the majority of people) even email is complex.

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          I never want to mention them explicitly to avoid them getting raided, but there is a community which came here after their sub got banned.

          The sub was about an influencer, so definitely not the crowd you would expect on Lemmy.

          They are doing just fine. We helped them a bit at first, showed them that there were apps, told them to remember the name of their “server” when logging in.

          The community is quite active with over 150 monthly active users. They discuss their topic in their community, everything is going well.

          Sometimes I feel like we overestimate the complexity of Lemmy.

          If they can do it, everybody can do it.

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      How does this argument apply to Lemmy? I get the number of instances could be confusing but you don’t have to know or care about any of that. If you don’t you just land on some registration page and do it. I honestly don’t see how that’s more technical than registering to Reddit, Facebook or Instagram.

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        The choice of instance is kind of a big barrier though. There’s also a lot of bad UX around discoverability.