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I work in software and tech, and it took me a little while to wrap my head around fedicerse stuff; and I still get some blank stares when trying to explain it to others. It’s a bit of work even to build up a good set of follows, and even to pick where to park your account; whereas something like Twitter (and I guess Bluesky) gives you immediate access to everyone saying stuff on the platform.
I think once Mastodon and other services hit a kind of critical mass, it won’t matter as much, as all the interesting celebs and official accounts will already be federated to most servers. But even now it seems like you have to take a more active role in building out your home screen
I also work in software, I’m still trying to wrap my head around the federation concept. There are a lot of buzzwords thrown around.
I remember when I first signed up for Reddit it just asked for a username and a password then boom you were in.
To get started on lemmy, the process isn’t quite so straightforward. I’m new here, like 20 minutes new, and I’ve already seen some people suggest that we should push new users into looking for new instances to sign up on (push them away from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org). There already is the knowledge hurdle of instances, accounts, communities, local/all, federation, etc. It’s not going to be easy to grow the user base if the vibe is that it is set up like some tech bro crypto scam.
There's a post on [email protected] that was talking about this. The sign-up process needs to be streamlined a bit so that new users can come in more readily, and not be turned away by the knowledge barrier and unclear sign-up process.