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How can we make the fediverse easier to adopt? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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or another way to ask it, what made fedi easier for you to adopt? I don't think the answer is better ways of explaining how federation exactly works, because no matter how good of an analogy you can make, most users don't care and just want to know how to get started

EDIT: I guess I'll go first, for something like Mastodon I think encouraging people to use a client like pinafore.social or Tusky instead of going directly to the website of the instance would help stop people from confusing themselves by getting redirected between instances. Same for Lemmy as better clients start to pop up

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I should file a bug, the issue im having is with this little icon right here, though im sure there are fundamental augments over this icon somewhere.

It took me a few before I realized the chain icon is what I want instead; which is a confusing icon as its the same Icon used for general internet links on most systems and even on lemmy's editor.

Even now, because its bright and colorful I still click it at times and get frustrated.

Why is hopping to the other instance such a prevalent feature, this is bound to confuse people with much shorter patience.

There are other minor oddities as well like putting colons in post titles just causes things to hang and of course inconveniences like less tooling. All of which I expect will be fixed overtime.