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It’s more complicated than signing up for Reddit, but really just by 1 degree.
I’m lurking Reddit a bit on Apollo still and see so many posts that have “Grandma trying to figure out a smartphone” energy making it seem like some insurmountable task, or complaining about the questionnaire without stopping to realize what a tidal wave of signups is happening.
Perhaps it’s for the best. If people can’t be bothered for something so simple, they might not be good fits anyways.
undefined>It’s more complicated than signing up for Reddit, but really just by 1 degree.
I don't know. There are fundamental differences that make lemmy a lot harder to get into. Start by choosing an instance. Add to that, that this decision is pretty much final. No moving accounts ever. Then you get into the fragmentation of communities. is the lemmy.ml, lemmy.world or some other community the "main" one? The base benefits of decentralization are also it's main issues at the moment. Lemmy needs to get something in place to move accounts cross instance including linking posts and subscriptions. Additionally, Communities need to be able to span multiple instances for various reasons. Mostly to gather people in one place, but also to spread the load. And not the least to also decentralize data. While lemmy as a whole might be decentralized, a community sits on one instance. And once the owner doesn't want to run it anymore, everything is gone.