Back in my day we had to walk uphill both ways to sign up for BBS forums. Kids these days.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Anyone got a good tutorial to share for folks who want to jump?
My hot take: I'm okay with a barrier to entry (right now).
Getting setup on the fediverse isn't necessarily a super simple process and there is a bit of learning curve for how it works.
That's okay. I actually like it. Here's why.
It means the people here want to be here. It means the people here understand what it is and more importantly what it isn't. It's not a reddit clone. It's not even old school forums. It's this.
And "this" isn't even it's final form. I fully expect for the fediverse to evolve over the next few months and years. As a community develops and the technology is refined, I am sure it will all get simpler as we knock off the rough edges.
In the mean time, this tiny barrier to entry keeps a lot of the whiners and naysayers away. It keeps people that only want a reddit clone, away. If you want reddit, use reddit. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
It's a balancing act, because we don't want to turn so many people away that we can't build a reasonable community, but you also don't want a bad copy of a system people are leaving.
Two examples:
when you're browsing your follows on mastodon, and click on their follows, the list is not true to their follows (because your server hasn't fetched them).
and, when you first subscribe to someone's posts, you can't see older posts (say they've got 100, but you see zero).
I'm aware that there are technical reasons (you weren't subscribed), and open source reasons (nobody has the time to volunteer to fix it), but these are insufficient to help an anxious new user who's undecided about the platform.
That's only Mastodon, which has 7 years of refinement. Don't get me started on the litany of federation-related edge cases of Lemmy's UX failings.
Lol yep, my wife uses reddit and when I started explaining it she just stopped listening. I'm like and case and point.
Though it took a bit of reading to figure it out for myself, I had the desire to do so. Whereas those who don't really care will continue to browse reddit or whatever imo.
Hopefully it becomes easier to get setup and more elegant solutions are found.
Case in point (sorry, can’t help myself)