Edit: what is the deal with lemmy randomly changing posts? This reply was composed in a thread about “Will the Fediverse turn off mainstream users?” I hit reply and then the reply posted in this thread. This happened to me last night too.
Listen, I explained Lemmy to my 66 year old boomer Dad and even he understood. You join one of the Lemmy instances and choose it as your home the same way you choose gmail as your email provider. Then you sub whatever community anywhere. It’s not a big deal.
The way I see it, just like with many many many other open sourced projects such as Launchbox, or KeePass, or ShareX, or Libre Office, nothing starts out perfect. But you need to recognise there are hard working people trying to make this dream a reality. It’s being worked on. What you are looking at is essentially a website in it’s infancy still, and it’s being built by the sheer will of the community. If people have patience, and understanding, things can work out just fine. This place is a paradise compared to Reddit. The Reddit corporation does not give a fuck. It wants your data, and to squeeze you for cash.
Lemmy isn’t perfect, yet, but the best thing we can do is work together and make it the way we want it, and we can, nothing can stop us. It’s open source, anyone can contibute. Donate. Post. Help the devs fix the bugs.
I understand that…the average person is not going to. Also, you EXPLAINED it to someone (I also explained it to my wife, who is not a tech person at all, and she understood fine), but again, it takes explaining. For this to take off, it’s going to need to be accessible without a lot of explanation. Otherwise people just won’t care.
For what it’s worth, I’m not a tech person who didn’t have anything explained to me beforehand, knew almost nothing except seeing the words ‘lemmy instance’ (didn’t know what that meant, just that it was relevant so googled it and found a sign up page) and ‘jerboa app’ on reddit and figured out my way here lol. I probably have a bit more free time and patience than the average user and am not afraid to brute force my way through just to see if things work tho lol.
There needs some improvements before it’ll be mainstream accessible for sure imo, most of which I’ve seen pointed out a few times already on different communities. I’d seen mastodon mentioned before in passing by non-tech friends who were just twitter users tho even without ever using Twitter myself, so I suspect if an average user can understand mastodon the same could be true here right?
Agree. I had to do some reading to fully understand the fediverse. If there was a portal that just assigned users to a random instance and then put them directly into a community database for them to sub across multiple instances it would be a much easier on boarding.
Edit: what is the deal with lemmy randomly changing posts? This reply was composed in a thread about “Will the Fediverse turn off mainstream users?” I hit reply and then the reply posted in this thread. This happened to me last night too.
Listen, I explained Lemmy to my 66 year old boomer Dad and even he understood. You join one of the Lemmy instances and choose it as your home the same way you choose gmail as your email provider. Then you sub whatever community anywhere. It’s not a big deal.
The way I see it, just like with many many many other open sourced projects such as Launchbox, or KeePass, or ShareX, or Libre Office, nothing starts out perfect. But you need to recognise there are hard working people trying to make this dream a reality. It’s being worked on. What you are looking at is essentially a website in it’s infancy still, and it’s being built by the sheer will of the community. If people have patience, and understanding, things can work out just fine. This place is a paradise compared to Reddit. The Reddit corporation does not give a fuck. It wants your data, and to squeeze you for cash.
Lemmy isn’t perfect, yet, but the best thing we can do is work together and make it the way we want it, and we can, nothing can stop us. It’s open source, anyone can contibute. Donate. Post. Help the devs fix the bugs.
I understand that…the average person is not going to. Also, you EXPLAINED it to someone (I also explained it to my wife, who is not a tech person at all, and she understood fine), but again, it takes explaining. For this to take off, it’s going to need to be accessible without a lot of explanation. Otherwise people just won’t care.
For what it’s worth, I’m not a tech person who didn’t have anything explained to me beforehand, knew almost nothing except seeing the words ‘lemmy instance’ (didn’t know what that meant, just that it was relevant so googled it and found a sign up page) and ‘jerboa app’ on reddit and figured out my way here lol. I probably have a bit more free time and patience than the average user and am not afraid to brute force my way through just to see if things work tho lol.
There needs some improvements before it’ll be mainstream accessible for sure imo, most of which I’ve seen pointed out a few times already on different communities. I’d seen mastodon mentioned before in passing by non-tech friends who were just twitter users tho even without ever using Twitter myself, so I suspect if an average user can understand mastodon the same could be true here right?
Meta is joining fediverse and bluesky will hopefully federate soon. People will “get it” soon enough…
Agree. I had to do some reading to fully understand the fediverse. If there was a portal that just assigned users to a random instance and then put them directly into a community database for them to sub across multiple instances it would be a much easier on boarding.