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I think the main barrier to entry for Lemmy is having to pick an instance. For a lot of people that is confusing and they've never had to do it before. There are definitely people who would give up because they don't understand what to do.
As someone on lemmy who had never had to pick an instance before, it's not that hard. The instances have descriptions similar to subreddits. You just pick one that sounds friendly. The problem is lack of content diversity. I'm still on reddit for niche topics, some of which are actually not that niche.
It was confusing for me.
Day 1 ‐ "What's an instance? Which one is the main one?"
"There is no main one."
"Which one is the biggest?"
"Well, Lemmy.World is the biggest, but you're not supposed to pick..."
"I picked Lemmy.World."
Hello I'm very new. Why not Lemmy.World?
For sure, I've always said that for the most part it doesn't really matter. Make an account on anyone of them and if you don't align with that instance in the long run you can just hop to a different one.
I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
Yeah but it will also influence your all feed, which is the main way of finding content when there's no specific community for your interests.
Or sometimes you run into the propaganda instances/users if you pick wrong.
It becomes a hassle and we know normal people don't want to even try.
For me, it was kbin.social - but kbin and lemmy didn't play well together when I joined (and now it's in its current state). Then I picked lemmy.world - and they went down one day due to the influx of users. Then I picked sh.itjust.works and I've been happy ever since. I'll be staying here until the day I spin up my own instance.
However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.
One of us...
I'm honestly tired of seeing people make the excuse that switching to activitypub is "too hard" because they have to pick a server. It's 2025, is half of the population experiencing an intelligence regress or something
I think you’re underestimating how tech challenged the average user is. It’s likely that your circle and the lemmy community as a whole tends to be more tech savvy which kinda skews it a bit; but it’s a very, very tiny subset of people and not representative of the general population of internet users.
It's crazy how little people understand about technology these days... But it's also like this disinterest in even trying to learn.
There's a spoon-sized amount of microplastic in our brains, ofc we are
Many people I personally know don’t even know how to use a browser, they do everything through apps served to them.
What in the heck happened lol we go from a generation of people building PCs, using DOS, hacking around in Windows and debloating operating systems, to people who can't function unless their phone tells them what to do
Only a tiny slice of the population ever did this. Some still do.
More did learn how to use Windows for their jobs, but that's largely diminished now.
well porn ppl all goto lemmynsfw anyways
I hope they are ready for the influx.
Or yiffit!
Good point
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