Honestly. I was setup and subscribed to some initial communities within 2 hours of RIF going down. Literally my only complaint at this point is the relative lack of content.
Be part of the solution, make it 😉.
I’ve literally had a conversation like
“the fediverse is too complex”
“It’s actually pretty simple when you get the hang of it, it took me like 5 minutes to understand it”
“That’s 5 minutes too much, everything is simple once you get the hang of it, actually simple things are intuitive from the start”
As if when you’re born you already have the knowledge required to browse Facebook in your brain. You have to “get the hang” of everything you use, there’s just more complex and less complex stuff (and 5 minutes is very much on the lower end).
Federation made no sense to me either, but everyone just said to make an account somewhere and start using it. That’s what I did and, while I don’t pretend to understand the back end, the stuff I’m using makes perfect sense to me.
I don’t mean to sound like I’m super smart or anything but I didn’t have any issue figuring out mastodon or lemmy.
I think the larger issue is people won’t take three minutes to read some basic instructions and background. They want to be spoon feed info and told what buttons to click.
To be fair, if it were spoon fed to people, it would be more popular. The best thing for federation is if it were much easier to get into for the average person.
Agreed but it needs to catch up to the current influx before we make it any easier :P
What is this from?
I’m so high I thought the top pic was of the Jonas Brothers 😭
