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People over-react because it's new to them, but it's not really that complicated. It's not like email never caught on because it's federated.
90% dont care or want to learn tech but need fancy gadgets. Basically they need a screen and apps on a device which has been marketed successfully.
I think it's really overstated how tech savvy you have to be. I don't do anything highly technical here. I signed up to a server, searched for things I was interested in, and subscribed to communities with the stuff I liked. I vote, comment, and post. There are great apps on the mainstream app stores. Yes, more than one thing is inherently a bit more complicated than one thing. But, lest we forget, one is also the loneliest number.
We should really be telling people how easy this shit is.
There's a reason nobody uses it because people like you are in every corner of Lemmy. Put it this way, if everybodys brain worked the same way then you'll be a billionaire like Donald J trump or elon musk.
There's a reason you're slaving a 9-5 and trying to push Lemmy to get a purpose in life.
No doubt, if the goal was to be some rich, worthless scumfuck I'd be doing different things. I'd probably have to spend my days trying to suck Trump Coins out of some grifter's dick. Or maybe I'd build a time machine to go back and make sure I popped out of a lady with a connection to an emerald mine. But... we all have our paths to walk. Mine is to toil endlessly in pursuit of purpose...
This conversation is actually a great example of complexity not mattering. You're on an Australian server, I'm on a Canadian server. We're replying to a post from a user on a third server to a community on a fourth server that people mistakenly think is American but is actually hosted in Germany. None of that matters because it just works. It's indistinguishable from posts and comments -- including you trying blame the whole thing on me -- at the same place. You can make it seem very complicated but all anyone has to do is type words in the little box and press the button to post it.
The way too many people think about the Fediverse right now is like thinking that you need to know every minor detail about how a call could make it from a cell phone in Australia to a cell phone in Canada. You don't need to know that to make a call. You don't need to know all the minutia about ActivityPub or federation to use the fediverse.
How do you know what they do?
Is there anything wrong with trying to promote Lemmy to begin with?
Mate prolly all 9-5 slaves here. I have studied 9-5 aka middle and poor class behaviour for 15-20 years and I know when they start pushing something because they need a purpose in life like they have achieved something. Nothing wrong with that , every poor and middle class should have a purpose to exist.