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This is an Us problem. Download jerboa. Create an account on world. Done. Simple as Reddit. We make it complicated by explaining federation, options, different instances, etc. None of that matters to the masses.
Also SSO should be released with Lemmy 1.0. Then you can just login with your Google account
This. So much of this.
I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and... Shut the fuck up.
App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.
People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master
I followed the directions my instance of choice had posted, also use jerboa. It was a few steps, but the directions given were simple. It didn't take me long at all to sign up.
I still don't fully understand federation, but I knew even less when I began here a few years ago. I do like using jerboa
We can make our decentralised network more popular by centralising it feels like an own goal...
If you're suggesting to your friends you can pick whichever instance you want, but the point is you should choose for them and don't even tell them that there is a choice
I mean, that is how I recommend linux distros to people :)
It depends what you want. If you want lots of people to join, you need to make it easy to join.
That doesn't mean we need to get rid of decentralization. You could have a federated joining mechanism that assigned people randomly to any willing instance. Forcing the user to pick is the problem.
The trouble is a random joining procedure will absolutely launch users into unsuitable instances for their personality, political positions.
Yeah, we need defaults to get people signed up. When it's too difficult for the average user, they'll go where it's easier.
I could not find Jerboa in the App Store. I use Voyager. We need Lemmy.
This is such an underrated point. If we want people to join Lemmy, we need an app called Lemmy, on every platform. And if we want to steal users from Reddit, make the UI a clone of the reddit app but better. And allow people to join via the app, not some separate website.
Or maybe people just need to stop saying "Lemmy" and instead say "Voyager", or "Boost for Lemmy" or whatever app they would suggest to use?
It's like Linux, I don't suggest people to install Linux because that's not a thing, I suggest they install Bazzite or Fedora KDE, or whatever I think will suit them best
Most people would see "use Voyager or boost" to be akin to "use Reddit or Instagram". Because why would there be more than one app to connect to the app.
It's wrong, but any time you break from a standard assumption you require thinking. Once you require thinking, you lose anyone who isn't otherwise motivated.
Yea true.
I didn't mean you should tell people "use Voyager or Boost for Lemmy"
I meant you should tell people "use Voyager" or "use Boost for Lemmy" or whatever app you think they would like, but just 1