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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

It's frustrating how many non-joiners are completely turned off by the part where you hunt for an instance to join. They act like it's super confusing and scary (when in fact it's 'super easy, barely an inconvenience').

Meanwhile these same people will scour the internet looking for a recipe or bootleg movie or whatever.

It's really frustrating when you remember what a huge PITA it is to get your account going on reddit. Sure, the first part is easy enough, it's just registering on the site. But then you find you can't do jack shit because you don't have enough karma and every sub you visit has 10,000 arbitrary byzantine rules to deal with because the mods got picked on in high school.

Lemmy is actually EASIER than reddit. But here we are.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

It really is:

choose any general instance
browse All and subscribe

Its that easy to get started. You can always make a new account later if you decide you don't like your instance because accounts don't matter.

[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Personnaly I can understand how it can seem difficult for not so geeky people.

It’s not difficult, but scary for normal people.

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Using a single search engine with hand holding is not the same as assuming you found the right site, a compatible app and then connecting them.

Most people don’t even touch their browser settings. Many also don’t touch their phone settings.

this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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