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threads is already going great 💀 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Kovu@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] artair@lemmy.world 382 points 1 year ago

Absolutely no surprise there. When you keep the barrier to entry low and throw in an algorithm to increase “engagement” via outrage, the soup turns to poison quickly.

This is why every time someone says the Fediverse is “too confusing,” I just smile and nod. That attitude of petulant, lazy, self-imposed gatekeeping is what’s keeping the Fediverse a much nicer place to be.

[-] HamnavoePer@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

It's concerning just how many people can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes to pick an instance... Keeps it nicer for us though

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't really think it's fair to pretend that, before two weeks ago, anyone under god had any idea what an instance was unless they were already heavily tech-oriented.

It took me hours of trying to read through not-my-kind-of-jargon to understand what the hell I was looking at and what kind of consequences that unexplained choice would have, and it really seems like a good number of users that initially struggled forget the learning curve extremely quickly the moment they're over it.

[-] BraBraBra@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

There was no learning curve for me. I randomly picked an instance LMFAO!

[-] valek879@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It was a case of: Lemmy.ml isn't accepting new users atm BeeHaw requires me to tell them why I'm a good user So does this other instance... Why do I have to justify myself!? Hey, Lemmy.world let's me just sign up! Perfect!

And that was how I chose an instance. Thank you for joining story got with Valek

[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Decision paralysis is real even for stupid things. Like, “what are the implications if I pick the wrong instance?” Was something that made me put off finishing signing up for mastodon and I’m not embarrassed to admit it. Acting like it’s trivial isn’t helpful to anyone even if it was trivial or you

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. I had no idea what picking an insurance meant in terms of the amount of people, communities, level of engagement, etc.

I could have picked one of the more toxic communities that have been defederated and my experience of lemmy would have been much worse

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah decision paralysis definitely delayed my joining any ActivityPub based sites, but really most of what it affects is stuff that wont matter until you've spent enough time on the platform to understand the difference to begin with