Abstractly, I like the idea of the Frediverse more, but if you take Lemmy for example – it could be confusing to a new user as to what the hell is happening with the different instances and servers.
I just link people to lemmy.world and tell them to go from there.
Yeah it almost didn’t happen for me. I’ve been tech savvy all my life and I followed the first link and noped out.
My 14 year old daughter heard me complaining and did some research and said, “Dad, you’re misunderstanding how it works. The servers aren’t isolated, it works like email. You don’t have to be signed up with the same provider to send and receive or in this case, see content. You just gotta sign up with one of them and it don’t matter which.”
I was still a little put off until she made her own account and showed me how it works.
The apps will make this easier. More apps are coming.
They’ll make signing up simple and explain it upfront.
Abstractly, I like the idea of the Frediverse more, but if you take Lemmy for example – it could be confusing to a new user as to what the hell is happening with the different instances and servers.
I just link people to lemmy.world and tell them to go from there.
Yeah it almost didn’t happen for me. I’ve been tech savvy all my life and I followed the first link and noped out.
My 14 year old daughter heard me complaining and did some research and said, “Dad, you’re misunderstanding how it works. The servers aren’t isolated, it works like email. You don’t have to be signed up with the same provider to send and receive or in this case, see content. You just gotta sign up with one of them and it don’t matter which.”
I was still a little put off until she made her own account and showed me how it works.
The apps will make this easier. More apps are coming.
They’ll make signing up simple and explain it upfront.