Hey everyone, I’m honestly really liking Lemmy so far. Maybe that’s because it feels so much like browsing reddit 10 years ago and I think it’s safe to say many of us have migrated from the blackout. I’d been a Reddit user since 2010 so I’ve witnessed the slow decline over the years but popping here has really driven home how corporate it started to feel–less like a genuine hub of community and more like a manufactured product with low effort content and some genuine discussion/input peppered throughout.
That said, does anyone feel the idea of a federated platform might be confusing to some less network-savvy users? There’s other successful multi-server platforms like Discord but somehow for me the idea of a ‘chatroom’ versus something more like a forum/board seems like it would make more sense to a less informed user. I could see hearing that posts are aggregating from other sites or being cross-visible confusing to individuals who understand web usage as, ‘visit site–post to site–view content on site’.
Does that make sense? lol Anyways, loving the site so far–hope to see it grow!
I’ve only just joined and that’s because the past few times when I went to join I was confused about joining a certain server. I figured I’d have to investigate which server is best before I joined one and found it was the wrong one.
Now I’m realising it doesn’t matter too much. However the toggle at the top of the main page between ‘subscribed’, ‘local’ and ‘all’ took me some time to realise. That was only when I’d subscribed to groups and they weren’t appearing on the main page. So wondering how I get to see them was already a point of annoyance.
Having that automatically toggle to ‘subscribed’ once you’ve started down that path would have helped.
Anyway, Once you’re past choosing a server it all feels strangely familiar and I’m liking it a lot.