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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.