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?

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    Anything new is scary
    Reddit is complicated, they just forgot.

    The digg users said reddit was ugly and they would never use such an ugly site.
    I tried explaining reddit to a diehard forum user, why are all the replies out of order? why are upvotes changing the posting order? this is so complicated!

    Don’t explain, tell them where to start and how to start. then it explains itself.

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      I can’t help but think that people who describe the Fediverse as complicated joined reddit after the redesign…

      Kbin is exactly like an old, stripped down version of old.reddit.

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        I think this is also the cause of the squabbles.io Vs kbin/Lemmy split. Squabbles is like new Reddit, kbin is like old Reddit. And people like what they know

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          This last sentence is the crux of the matter. People don’t like change, but quickly forget that they spent time learning the site that they’re so familiar with.

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        In kbins case you actually have a responsive admin and can actually find devs on here working on new features and tweaks (hey there!)

        Super happy with how kbin has been going so far

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        This is 100% it. Also some people have only ever used iOS with the Reddit app and Twitter and Tiktok which are so easy to use a literal 3 year old can use it

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      As a forum user, it was absolutely crazy to me when I first signed up on Reddit a decade ago that the replies would be out of order and sorted by popularity. But I grew to understand that it was a crowdsourcing effort in most ways and that the cream rises to the top. It was really quite good to get the information you needed out of the thread.

      Anything new is scary

      Agreed. Most people just want to settle into something comfortable.

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        I feel it, and if I had another chance to explain it would have just told her(forum user): make an account, go to /r/horses, start commenting.

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        I’m just coming over from Reddit and finding Lemmy a little difficult, but I think it will smooth out a lot over time. Right now communities are not really established, apps are buggy and there’s a lot to get used to. More users and developers making their way to Lemmy should solve a lot of these problems