I’m brand new here. I created logins at 3 instances. It’s not clear that you only need to log into one instance. Then communities are only discoverable if someone already linked to it on your instance. If I’m understood it right. All that to say-that’s a lot more friction to Signup and be scrolling entertaining content compared to Reddit. I’m trying to move mostly here, but there are some support communities on Reddit only. Finding new communities is definitely more complex than Reddit.
I’m here here for it, but let’s recognize there is a learning curve that will turn people off with limited time and mental bandwidth to pickup a new thing for fun.
Then communities are only discoverable if someone already linked to it on your instance.
That’s a good point. The community search could really be improved. And it’s also a bit of a problem that currently the number of subscribers for a community that you see is only the number of subscribers from your home instance.
I’m brand new here. I created logins at 3 instances. It’s not clear that you only need to log into one instance. Then communities are only discoverable if someone already linked to it on your instance. If I’m understood it right. All that to say-that’s a lot more friction to Signup and be scrolling entertaining content compared to Reddit. I’m trying to move mostly here, but there are some support communities on Reddit only. Finding new communities is definitely more complex than Reddit.
I’m here here for it, but let’s recognize there is a learning curve that will turn people off with limited time and mental bandwidth to pickup a new thing for fun.
That’s a good point. The community search could really be improved. And it’s also a bit of a problem that currently the number of subscribers for a community that you see is only the number of subscribers from your home instance.