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Cake day: March 2nd, 2023

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  • Therein lies the problem. A lot of people already get decision fatigue trying to choose a server and don’t get past the sign up. Assuming that they are still willing to try and use a third party app, you get to layer finding a good app that works reliably on top of that and learning how to use the app which will be significantly different from the website. There comes a point where it’s not tech illiteracy but a lack of time and interest spending hours how to use a service that is much harder to get into than its competitors.


  • I know it’s hard for tech literate people to understand but choosing a server is daunting. Most people chose their email because it was linked to a service they were already familiar with like Google and Microsoft. There’s no familiarity with the Lemmy or mastodon instances and there are so many of them that people who already have trouble learning new technologies get to deal with decision fatigue on top of that. People like what is familiar and having a service that mostly works the same is still very confusing for them.









  • I think lemmy will start hitting it’s stride when it gets more widely known about especially within the Reddit sphere. I’ve been looking for a federated Reddit alternative for years because I love the format but don’t trust Reddit anymore because it’s going public. As venture capital starts squeezing that service, I think more people will be open to looking for an alternative especially as more of the web becomes accustomed to federation in general.