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[-] HamnavoePer@kbin.social 39 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] Sarsaparilla@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago

It took me hours of trying to read through not-my-kind-of-jargon to understand

I started off going down that road of trying to understand it, but my laziness and impatience got in the way and said "just start using it and you'll work it out." And that's exactly what happened for me. In a way, the explanations made it all sound much more confusing than it really is. Sometimes you just gotta take a deep breath and dive in.

[-] Greenskye@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Same. I signed up for the first instance someone mentioned positively. Seems fine, only about 5 minutes of research invested

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