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A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I'd scared too.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is the barrier to entry - most people probably stopped on "choose a server".

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The concept of Lemmy being servers was easy for me to understand (thanks MMOs, I guess?), but having to jump through hoops to actually sign up with many of them was the primary difficulty. Nobody wants to have to write an essay on why they should be accepted to a server.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I did a few times before I figured it out.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me too, only my hatred grew my resolve

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

That's what did it for me. The admins are the trolls and protect their troll buddies.