I told somebody I know who knew about Reddit's API changes about Lemmy. He has a master's degree in Computer Science and works as a software engineer. But then, he told me that it's too confusing to get into, even for someone like him. This is great feedback and I hope that these issues will be fixed in the coming months.
I agree it’s not user friendly (at least not as userfriendly as centralized platforms are) but I’m sorry I really doubt he has master’s in CS and if he does he bullshitted his way through to get it
Or he doesn't want to take his work home. I grew up fixing / upgrading computers for hardware engineers at IBM when I was a kid. My dad was a programmer for the federal government and when he got home he didn't want to touch technology (he was probably the last person to get a cell phone and the closest thing to a computer he uses today is an iPad).
As I get older I'm finding the same thing. I use linux at home but when gentoo died I didn't switch to arch I went to ubuntu. I kept saying the iphone 4 - 6 - X were going to be my last iPhone before switching to android but I still haven't. Sometimes you want stuff to just work. I don't want to debug why the social media platform doesn't let me login? I want to quickly catch-up on what's happening and relax.
Yet here we are, both chatting on this social media and I don’t believe either of us had to dig in and debug lemmy to get here
I did. I had to find an instance that let me create an account without an approval process or a spinning wheel of nothings happening. Today is my first day posting on the platform but it's my second trying to use it. I definitely had to search for answers to get this far and I'm not recommending it at all to my less techy friends until things stabilize.