• @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    The sign up process is just too confusing for most people too. I tried evangelizing it when musk took over and that was everyones response. Need like a temporary instance for new accounts that you can transfer out of once you’ve got your sea legs

    • @TrismegistusMx
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      171 year ago

      Counterpoint: This tiny little hurdle keeps out the lazy and ignorant.

      • @dfc09
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        301 year ago

        That’s how I feel right now. I don’t need the Fediverse to replace reddit and Twitter, I want it to be a refuge from the commercialized crap! The people who can’t be bothered to figure out Lemmy or Mastodon can stay right where they are!

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          Exactly, lemmy feels like my kind of people. Going against proprietary stuff, against privacy nightmares. It’s the fact that I can relate to people here that makes it such a good replacement for commercial alternatives.

          • @dfc09
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            11 year ago

            I think these communities are plenty big already! I spent a while on tildes before coming here so in used to, and enjoy, smaller communites.

        • @Freesoftwareenjoyer
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          51 year ago

          But people using those platforms is not good for our society. Of course if they cared about freedom a little bit of extra difficulty wouldn’t really bother them. But the goal should be to make the switch as easy as possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      The only thing complicated about signing up for Mastodon (and Lemmy) is choice of instance.

      Some people need that choice made for them, even though it does not practically matter. Most instances federate with content on other instances and it is possible to migrate your content to an new instance if you change your mind in the future.

      Fortunately there are regional instances for both for me so it was pretty much a no-brainer for me to use aus.social and aussie.zone

    • justhach
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      31 year ago

      I really dont get this “Lemmy/Mastodon is sooooo haaaaard to sign up for”. I’m a barely technoliterate 30 something who’s closest thing to coding knowledge is the Missingno cheat in Pokemon Blue, and I figured it out. Its not that hard.

      Like, the instances/server thing is the only real extra step you have in signing up, but besides that, its like signing up for any other website.