They need to find a way to make this easier to understand. I almost didn’t sign up because it was so confusing. I use to go on reddit for one subreddit and they are not even considering lemmy to host a second community. There’s a different alternative they think has potential. Its a pretty big sub too.
I think it’s not helped by the fact that most early adopters are “techies” who enjoy talking about the underlying tech.
The average user doesn’t really need to understand this whole fediverse thing to sign up and use Lemmy. We could just have a website with a big sign up button that randomly (to load balance) selects an instance from a whitelist and signs the user up there to get them started. But instead we have GitHub docs with detailed comparisons of various instances, and long discussions about underlying protocols and what the federation means and how that’s different from centralized platforms.
Yeah, I agree with you completely. I ended up with wold because I googled something on lemmy, saw the url had world in it, and just used that. The front sign up page was just confusing to me.
I only managed to sign up because Memmy held my hand through the process. NEVER underestimate a good sign up flow.
If you’re out there browsing this, unaware of how to sign up - get Memmy. It’s somewhat explained in that sign up flow, and at least you’ll get in here where you can get direct feedback from users.
They need to find a way to make this easier to understand. I almost didn’t sign up because it was so confusing. I use to go on reddit for one subreddit and they are not even considering lemmy to host a second community. There’s a different alternative they think has potential. Its a pretty big sub too.
I think it’s not helped by the fact that most early adopters are “techies” who enjoy talking about the underlying tech.
The average user doesn’t really need to understand this whole fediverse thing to sign up and use Lemmy. We could just have a website with a big sign up button that randomly (to load balance) selects an instance from a whitelist and signs the user up there to get them started. But instead we have GitHub docs with detailed comparisons of various instances, and long discussions about underlying protocols and what the federation means and how that’s different from centralized platforms.
Yeah, I agree with you completely. I ended up with wold because I googled something on lemmy, saw the url had world in it, and just used that. The front sign up page was just confusing to me.
Check sub.rehab maybe they went somewhere else?
I only managed to sign up because Memmy held my hand through the process. NEVER underestimate a good sign up flow.
If you’re out there browsing this, unaware of how to sign up - get Memmy. It’s somewhat explained in that sign up flow, and at least you’ll get in here where you can get direct feedback from users.
Is that an app? An instance? Something else?
App for the instances. Like wefwef. I think. I’m still learning this.