They need to find a way to make this easier to understand. I almost didn’t sign up because it was so confusing. I use to go on reddit for one subreddit and they are not even considering lemmy to host a second community. There’s a different alternative they think has potential. Its a pretty big sub too.
Yeah, Lemmy isn’t perfect, but I think it’s much better than reddit already. It’s a bit weird and you need to get used to the way it works, but isn’t that true for reddit as well? You just already happen to have experience with reddit.
I’m sure there are other alternatives that are more similar to reddit in it’s monolithic approach.
I only managed to sign up because Memmy held my hand through the process. NEVER underestimate a good sign up flow.
If you’re out there browsing this, unaware of how to sign up - get Memmy. It’s somewhat explained in that sign up flow, and at least you’ll get in here where you can get direct feedback from users.
I think it’s not helped by the fact that most early adopters are “techies” who enjoy talking about the underlying tech.
The average user doesn’t really need to understand this whole fediverse thing to sign up and use Lemmy. We could just have a website with a big sign up button that randomly (to load balance) selects an instance from a whitelist and signs the user up there to get them started. But instead we have GitHub docs with detailed comparisons of various instances, and long discussions about underlying protocols and what the federation means and how that’s different from centralized platforms.
Yeah, I agree with you completely. I ended up with wold because I googled something on lemmy, saw the url had world in it, and just used that. The front sign up page was just confusing to me.
I only managed to sign up because Memmy held my hand through the process. NEVER underestimate a good sign up flow.
If you’re out there browsing this, unaware of how to sign up - get Memmy. It’s somewhat explained in that sign up flow, and at least you’ll get in here where you can get direct feedback from users.
The best analogy I’ve seen is that each instance is like an email server. You can open your email with Google, Yahoo or wherever you want, you can still communicate with other people in other servers without any issues. If Yahoo goes down, Gmail will still work, if Gmail decides to ban nsfw attachments, yahoo can still decide their own rules. That’s what being federated means roughly.
They need to find a way to make this easier to understand. I almost didn’t sign up because it was so confusing. I use to go on reddit for one subreddit and they are not even considering lemmy to host a second community. There’s a different alternative they think has potential. Its a pretty big sub too.
Yeah, Lemmy isn’t perfect, but I think it’s much better than reddit already. It’s a bit weird and you need to get used to the way it works, but isn’t that true for reddit as well? You just already happen to have experience with reddit. I’m sure there are other alternatives that are more similar to reddit in it’s monolithic approach.
Naa I kinda like that it requires some knowledge to get in.
I only managed to sign up because Memmy held my hand through the process. NEVER underestimate a good sign up flow.
If you’re out there browsing this, unaware of how to sign up - get Memmy. It’s somewhat explained in that sign up flow, and at least you’ll get in here where you can get direct feedback from users.
Is that an app? An instance? Something else?
App for the instances. Like wefwef. I think. I’m still learning this.
I think it’s not helped by the fact that most early adopters are “techies” who enjoy talking about the underlying tech.
The average user doesn’t really need to understand this whole fediverse thing to sign up and use Lemmy. We could just have a website with a big sign up button that randomly (to load balance) selects an instance from a whitelist and signs the user up there to get them started. But instead we have GitHub docs with detailed comparisons of various instances, and long discussions about underlying protocols and what the federation means and how that’s different from centralized platforms.
Yeah, I agree with you completely. I ended up with wold because I googled something on lemmy, saw the url had world in it, and just used that. The front sign up page was just confusing to me.
Check sub.rehab maybe they went somewhere else?
I only managed to sign up because Memmy held my hand through the process. NEVER underestimate a good sign up flow.
If you’re out there browsing this, unaware of how to sign up - get Memmy. It’s somewhat explained in that sign up flow, and at least you’ll get in here where you can get direct feedback from users.
The best analogy I’ve seen is that each instance is like an email server. You can open your email with Google, Yahoo or wherever you want, you can still communicate with other people in other servers without any issues. If Yahoo goes down, Gmail will still work, if Gmail decides to ban nsfw attachments, yahoo can still decide their own rules. That’s what being federated means roughly.