I haven’t gone back since Apollo shut down, and not planning to, but I am curious.

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    I’m not really a normy, but the simple act of making an account is not obvious. With that barrier of entry, most people will simply never be able to join here.

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      I kinda am, and found it easy enough. Read some stuff and signed up, jumped in and figure it out as I go - am I missing something? There doesn’t seem to be barrier to entry for anyone who can use a phone or computer.

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          It does though. Its not the technology… Its the critical thinking and problem solving. It could be a stone puzzle.

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      Please help, I can’t for the life of me work out how to Sign Up!!!

      GTFO!

      Please, anyone that dumb - force them to stay on Reddit. Don’t let them in!!!

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        Most people start by ending up on the join Lemmy website and are bombarded with info about the fediverse, and the description of each server makes it sound like you can only interact with local commities. If you link someone straight to lemmy.world I imagine they will have no problem signing up.

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          Oh, ok - I missed something.

          I started by looking at BeeHaw from a link - but couldn’t get in.

          Then Lemmy.ml, which promptly failed to do much of anything, I actually made 5 accounts with the same username in Bitwarden (just join, then search up my BendyLemmy and ‘auto-fill and save’…).

          When Lemmy.world stopped responding (last week I also got tons of errors with Lemmy.ml) I just took a back seat, did something else, then spotted several ‘upgraded!!!’ posts in my feeds.