How can we make the fediverse easier to adopt? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by thebestlettuce to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[-] thebestlettuce 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah a good Lemmy client app would probably help users migrate easier. I tried the only one on the android play store (Jerboa) but it crashes immediately when I log in

[-] thedeserter@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Isn't there one called Jerboah or something? https://join-lemmy.org/apps Here you go

[-] thebestlettuce 1 points 2 years ago

That's the one I used, I just got the name wrong. It still crashes for me

[-] thedeserter@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm I have no idea about that app since I am an iOS user but isn't there a forum to discuss and get help with it? I bet there is a community for it. I know the app is not bug free and will take time to get better

[-] iso 1 points 2 years ago

Try some more after a day or so. For some reason it suddenly worked for me. Might be instance load idk

[-] thebestlettuce 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it works now! Posting from jerboa

[-] iso 1 points 2 years ago

Eyyy lesgo! :D

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