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As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.
Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?
The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.
I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.
There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.
I think that eventually there will be primary communities that get settled for major topics.
I don't think we're using Lemmy correctly right now, and there's a shift in mindset that needs to happen before Lemmy really becomes great. People need to realize that smaller instances built around specific topics will be better than massive ones trying to span every topic.