This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?

  • andyj@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    First time, liking the experience though the no central login is my biggest concern. What works for Reddit is that it’s really easy for a non-technical person to get in to it; Setup an account, login in, find, view, subscribe, post, and comment all in one place. With Lemmy/Fediverse there is a barrier with trying to explain it straight away e.g is it called Lemmy or Fediverse or Kbin etc

    I get why it’s better, and I don’t know what a solution could be, but at the moment the simplicity of it in one place will keep Reddit a viable solution for a lot of people who would like it to “just work”. And it’s those people that helps build large communities.

    As an example here’s a comment and reply from PrequelMemes

    squabbles.io is a pretty good reddit alternative. I hear a lot of people suggesting lemmy and other federated options, but those are just confusing to me tbh. Squabbles works very similarly to reddit, so the transition should be painless.

    And the reply

    Thank you! I’m heading to squabbles.io right now, based upon your description of it!

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I mean it’s not any different from how email works. You decide on an email provider that you want to use, and then you can send messages to other people who use other email servers. It think it just seems difficult because it’s different, but it clicks once you get into the right mindset about it. If Lemmy becomes big then a few larger providers will probably surface and be the go-to for non-technical people (c.f. GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc).