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[-] Hangglide@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

No. It not the UI. It is the pick a "Feterated Instance" stuff before you even know what it is. No one knows those words. It should just work for new users. Instances and federation should be presented later.

[-] Falafels@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

There should be a simple signup that looks something like:

[choose a username] @ [choose an instance]

Where the first one is an input field and the second one is a drop down or search bar. People can pick whatever instance name piques their fancy to get started. Once they understand the fediverse better they can move to another server (hopefully migration will be built-in at some point).

[-] starman2112@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I think better communication about what federation is would help. I keep seeing folks say it's like email, but that assumes the average person understands how email works.

We should start describing it as "like if Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News could see and comment on each other's content"

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