I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!

  • suredoood@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I personally still don’t understand the point behind instances. It seems to just introduce confusion about the sign-up process, and also makes usage unrealiable. I don’t understand why it can’t just be one large decentralized instance, in a similar (though obviously not exact) way as blockchains were distributed account systems.

    All these introduced technical details are deterrance for non-technical users. I would consider myself a very tech savvy user and still have been offput by both Mastodon and Lemmy, but have still pushed myself to both due to their recent corporate counterparts going to shit.

    • domsch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Totally this. Not just confusion. What if Lemmy.ml shuts down one day because who ever hosts it doesn’t want to anymore? All I have done on Lemmy will be wiped. Makes me hesitent to actually go in 100%.