What do you guys think? Will many instances of these platforms intercommunicating strengthen or weaken our ability to converse?
Does it need to win? Can’t it co-exist with others? As long as you have enough people to have nice discussions. You can have that with 10 million people, don’t need all 8 billion here… Mastodon is still way smaller than other social media, but still I enjoy it very much. There are enough interesting people there to fill my timelines.
I kinda write biased so I could spur precisely this sort of stimulating response. What will it mean when the large cluster of people aren’t quite as readily available though… and finding the hidden communities is once again about being ‘in the know’… I’m really just musing over here as I watch the world…
Framing everything in terms of winners and losers is an unfortunate condition. As users who tend to enjoy niche things, we should understand this easily.
Unfortunately(???) no. It’s just too confusing for the average user to bother to attempt with it. I’m having fun stumbling through it a bit while I have the weekend off, but the average non tech savvy user is not going to sit down and figure it all out. Happy to be here, though. I think I’m finally settling on lemmy.world as my instance, as you can create your own community here (unlike Beehaw) and it seems pretty chill, but large enough to not just vanish. Hope everyone is well.
I don’t think it’s *super *confusing. I’ve been playing with it an hour and already feel ready to go. It helps that the first thing on Lemmy.World is an explainer for how communities and servers work. I had a bit of confusion coming from join lemmy to lemmy world.
Having recently taught my completely tech illiterate mother how to sign up and use Reddit I would say it’s not any more complex at it’s core to a low level user. ‘Sign up here, join communities, off you go!’ and just skip explaining the back end of it all. She still doesn’t get Reddit as an aggregate service but she understandings searching for gardening, and joining the gardening sub gives her gardening posts on her front page.
I think improving onboarding on the Join Lemmy will go a long way to lowering the barrier for entry, offering up simple explanations will make it seem less intimidating. Like the time’s people suggest using Lemmy I’ve seen they explain what it is instead of just being like “It’s like reddit, sign up here {Insert server here}.” To a low level user how it works won’t really matter as long as their personal server continues to exist.
