I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by metic@lemmy.world to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

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[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Having "add new post" in the header on kbin it's definitely something that will trip up people coming from Reddit. You need to add a new "article" which isn't very intuitive

[-] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Took ne a few tries to figure that out. And what is a microblog even and why do we have it?

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Microblogs are like tweets. I think posts from people you follow on Mastodon and similar federated microblogging platforms should appear there. I wish there was the option to merge the microblog and magazine feed. I don't think having them separated is necessary on a platform like this.

[-] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's for Mastodon compatibility. Articles are like Reddit posts and microblogs are like tweets. You can post either from Kbin. Your articles will show up as community posts on Lemmy, and your microblogs will show up as toots on Mastodon.

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