I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
It seems that there’s some missing middle-management link conversion that someone needs to release.
If someone makes a post saying (and I’m making up links here, don’t click them) - there’s a new reddit-equivalent community at https://lemmy.world/c/whatever come join! …that’s only telling us half the story.
So newbies click this link and oh they have to create a lemmy.world account? What about if they already created a lemmy.one account? Do they need multiple accounts? We know they don’t, but they don’t know that yet.
Even experienced users can’t make use of that link at all, and this is the crux of the issue. Every link given out has to be some sort of !whatever@your.instance variant. And you have to manually search for that or manually enter it. It’s 2023 and this renders your hyperlink unclickable and that much trickier to use.
On mobile I assume it’s even harder, or even mobile-to-desktop or desktop-to-mobile.
There needs to be a one-click way to subscribe to communities using the instance you’re logged into without all the back and forth.