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I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In addition to the learning curve and the minor bugginess of Lemmy and Kbin, I feel like there may be some cognitive dissonance going on for users that are on the fence on whether they want to switch. To resolve the dissonance, one could either change their behavior (switch to Lemmy or kbin) or change their cognition (rationalize why they do not want to switch; for example by thinking that Lemmy or Kbin is too hard to use). Changing behavior can be hard especially if it is a habit built over a long period of time, so coming up with excuses for why one doesn't want to switch would be the easier thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that is so dismissive.

people don't want to switch because they had a thing that they liked and this thing is nothing like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, and that is part of the cognitive dissonance between enjoying reddit for what it provided and wanting to switch to an alternative. However, if one is searching for a reddit alternative and will not switch to anything exactly like it, why should one even be looking for an alternative?

[–] jscummy 1 points 1 year ago

This whole thread is pretty dismissive. This might be simple in theory, but I'm sitting here using an app (Summit) that doesn't let me view my profile or subscribe to communities (yet). I've used RIF for about ten years now and got way too used to a smooth, easy app that I knew backwards and forwards.