or another way to ask it, what made fedi easier for you to adopt? I don’t think the answer is better ways of explaining how federation exactly works, because no matter how good of an analogy you can make, most users don’t care and just want to know how to get started

EDIT: I guess I’ll go first, for something like Mastodon I think encouraging people to use a client like pinafore.social or Tusky instead of going directly to the website of the instance would help stop people from confusing themselves by getting redirected between instances. Same for Lemmy as better clients start to pop up

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      One feature I’d really like is being able to click that link without being “logged out” as that link takes me to lemmy.world and my account is on lemmy.ca

      I think little things like that turn away new users who get annoyed by all the “glitches” so to speak.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        31 year ago

        Clicking a link should first check if the link is to another lemmy instance, and if it is it should attempt to open that post while remaining in this instance.

        I think if you use Lemmy (and mastodon and other fedi platforms) through a client you can avoid this issue. I use Tusky and Pinafore for mastodon, but haven’t found a good one yet for lemmy

        • @WalterzarBoBalterzar
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          11 year ago

          The developer for Jerboa mentioned in a thread (sorry I don’t have the link on hand) that they are currently working on opening instance links within your current instance.

          Currently it just pops up in an embedded browser, but I’m glad they’re actively resolving it!

      • @psychothumbs
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        11 year ago

        Yeah not staying logged in as you navigate around the site is pretty crippling.