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But there’s not many current users over there to answer them. If you still have a reddit account and are willing to help some folks out, please consider doing so!
“I’m very tech-savvy, but I don’t understand how the Fediverse work” - Then continues to write FUD… I’m so tired lol
If Pixelfed can reach 186k monthly active users in a week thanks to IG users, than I’m really not sure how tech savvy that person is indeed
A huge barrier for some is picking the instance and figuring which community they should follow.
Figuring out which communities on which servers to subscribe to is way more important than figuring out which server to post from.
no, it does matter, because of the “local” feed.
I am in favor of creating something intermediate between “local” and “global”. For example, it should also show you a few posts of “neighboring” servers, but not so much from servers who are further removed.
But that effectively goes in the direction of creating a recommendation algorithm, which is a notoriously difficult topic, because everyone will complain about the results.
To get to that point you have to have selected an instance and then learned how it all works so IMO that’s less of a barrier for entry than it is a barrier for use
I guess I had practice from picking MMO servers all these years.
Picking MMO servers, really? Which MMO is that? I’m genuinely asking - I’ve never played many MMOs, but every one that I’ve known has had a single persistent world.
Then they’re likely just auto-assigning you to a server, likely based on geographic proximity.
That’s how it’s done with more recent ones, but older ones always had servers.
WoW for instance
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
Why those two? https://lemmy.world/comment/14616442
I slightly prefer mlem even tho its similar, arctic is the cleanest with the least issues displaying things imo, at least on iphone
The main appeal of Voyager is that it’s available on both Android and iOS
forsure that makes a lot of sense
I have a question.
How, if possible, can I log in to say, discuss.online above, with this account.
Or do I need to make a second account over there.
I am using the jerboa app at the moment if that helps.
Also, related, is there a way to just, use my Mastodon account, and drop this one completely?
You can interact with Discuss.online communities clicking this kind of links: !AskUSA@discuss.online
Another example: !casualconversation@lemm.ee
A community with a few guides: !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
You can’t use a Mastodon account to log in to a Lemmy instance.
You can’t log in from your lemmy.world account, but you can interact with it through lemmy.world as if you had an account there.
You can view/comment/vote on all of the content there while logged into lemmy.world. As an example, you should be able to click this !flipperzero@programming.dev and participate there. or !AskUSA@discuss.online.
I am not a fan of “microblogging”, so I am not 100% certain. I have seen a lot of posts/comments from Mastodon on lemmy instances, they are the people using hashtags.
Kbin and Mbin are Lemmy-like systems that also hooks into microblogging much easier, so you might be able to do a one account thing there much easier.
Again, not certain because microblogging is not my jam.
It seems you can’t interact using Mastodon, but you can follow Lemmy with Mastodon. Mostly just wasn’t sure because in some ways the Fediverse seems more connected and more into the idea of “follow everywhere”, but also it seems like its not quite at “one account everywhere.”
For the second part Reddit also have the same issue.
Reddit has a recommendation algorithm to do most of that work for you.
It is the “problem” of how accessible everything is. I know plenty of genuinely amazing coders who have no idea how an operating system (let alone the hardware it runs on) works because they don’t need to know. EVERYONE has stories of people who don’t understand directory structures because they grew up on google drive.
And it REALLY does not help that the average fediverse evangelist can’t shut up and just give a simple answer.
In the Warframe space? What I and others have noticed works REALLY well is to tell the person trying it out “At the end of a mission you are going to get like 40 currencies. Ignore that shit, it doesn’t matter”. And in fediverse stuff? The answer is just to say “It is like having an email account at gmail or hotmail or whatever”*. It doesn’t matter. Just go to join-lemmy.org or whatever and pick one of the top servers after doing their questionnaire".
Instead we have “Well, you need to understand federation and why it is so important. Read this white paper and then come back to me and I’ll suggest a few youtube videos that explain what you are having trouble with”
*: The fact that I couldn’t think of a good email provider that normies use IS the problem.
Such a person cannot be an “amazing coder”.
There should be a link, that redirects you to the registration page of a random (maybe based on geo ip) Lemmy server. Just don’t mention to the user that they have a choice of servers. Just have them register and get on. Later, while using the Fediverse, they will learn how it works and be able to understand what it means to choose a Lemmy server yourself.
Anything else is just too complicated for the average person, I think. Hell, I think domain names other than lemmy.xxx is confusing some people.
This. Techies know custom domains are a thing. A LOT of people are going to look askance at anything that isn’t among the most common TLDs. I mean, lemmy.zip is kinda funny. But it also screams “don’t click me, zip files from an unknown source are dangerous!”
…and now I’m having intrusive thoughts about exe being a TLD. I’m-a go lay down until the voices stop.
Risky click.
Edit: It’s unregistered. Which I view as a total failure of the Lemmy community.
It’s actually registered, just doean’t point to a website. https://www.whois.com/whois/lemmy.xxx
Domain Name: lemmy.xxx Registry Domain ID: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrar WHOIS Server: https://porkbun.com/whois Registrar URL: www.porkbun.com Updated Date: 2024-06-04T06:41:46Z Creation Date: 2023-05-31T21:41:15ZI think they shouldnt even be shown other servers inititslly on the apps, have it in the corner as an optional pick, default to lemmee or shitjustworks since they dont block stuff like piracy, or if you’re scared of legal trouble default to lemmyworld
Random servers usually give lackluster experiences: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536
Fedi observer does something like this.
Just checked about https://dormi.zone/, good to see it’s still around
So what? You don’t have to understand how something works to use it.
This guy thought so…
He was wrong.
Wow, that’s a dumb argument. I don’t have the slightest clue how it works, but I’m here!
IKR.
Call me a gatekeeper but it’s not secret arcane knowledge for a privileged few.
You just sign up the same way you’ve done anything ever.
Generally, I don’t believe it’s actually an issue with complication. There’s just a resistance to change. That said there’s still significant onus on those invested in the fediverse to make sure It Just Workstm
I miss a lot of the niche communities of reddit that still had engagement. Lemmy doesn’t have all that I used to have, but I decided to join anyway. Not everyone will do that, and like you said that makes the resistance to change even stronger.
thats kind of how it starts, individuals have different thresholds for migrating. its fine for it to take time. =)
It’s fine to use both, most people do
Yeah if you want to that’s fine. I choose not to.
You are not alone.
Town and cities subreddits are probably going to be the last to move
I thought it was sh.itjust.works
I mean… people who understand how the fediverse works… have already made the move.
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