I agree when it comes something doomed like Mastodon, I bounced right off it. Way too annoying to navigate. Understatement, it’s genuinely unpleasant to use. Your reward for doing so (at least when I tried last year) is a near ghost town with nothing but American politic whining for content. Even worse community than Bluesky where that can be filtered out somewhat.
I don’t think piefed/lemmy takes a galaxy brain to figure out once signed up but yeah even just having multiple choice sign up pages scares people probably. The apps can obfuscate that for their small minds I think long term maybe? I’m also happy to just keep a small community going it’s not really a concern for me. Big population just invites more bad actors.
They trust their corpo bubbles more, pretty sad innit.
The barrier to alternatives is very high, especially when they simply don’t understand the risks.
People tend to overcomplicate the thing. Sync for Lemmy was a 1:1 clone of the one for Reddit.
Users can just jump in without any idea of what federation is: https://lemmy.zip/post/47438646?scrollToComments=true
I agree when it comes something doomed like Mastodon, I bounced right off it. Way too annoying to navigate. Understatement, it’s genuinely unpleasant to use. Your reward for doing so (at least when I tried last year) is a near ghost town with nothing but American politic whining for content. Even worse community than Bluesky where that can be filtered out somewhat.
I don’t think piefed/lemmy takes a galaxy brain to figure out once signed up but yeah even just having multiple choice sign up pages scares people probably. The apps can obfuscate that for their small minds I think long term maybe? I’m also happy to just keep a small community going it’s not really a concern for me. Big population just invites more bad actors.