Hoping it's a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother

[–] PsychoticBananaSplit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

People use discord though, and I find it just as confusing. It feels the same here, except you make an account on one server and use that server to browse all other servers

[–] robonps@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I thought so too but there is so much information out there and it doesn't take much at all to figure out. I gave up once because I was tired and my brain was foggy but tried again later and I got it working with jeroba and it's great. I don't even mind the lag from all the new users.

[–] Licensed_to_ill@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm one of the confused casual users. Can you explain how the instances work? This morning I created an account on my pc but had no time to browse. I downloaded an app called jerboa a few minutes ago. The front page had memes and fun things. I logged into lemmy.world instance and that content is gone. Do I have to have an account for each instance? Are the instances like separate websites?

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All the accounts and posts can communicate/share across the instances, but each instance has its own database of posts.

The example people give is that is like email. You can have licenensedtoill@gmail but you can send messages someone @yahoo.

You dont have to create a seperate account for each instance. And on whatever instance youre on you can browse and post on communities of any other instance.

Theres definitely some work to be done to make this all more intuitive though

[–] Licensed_to_ill@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean someone else can have the same username as me on a separate instance?

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, just like with email.

[–] Cobe98@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The way this is successful is if someone develops a way for the 3rd party clients (such as a proxy) to switch to this system instead. Also a way to easily register.

[–] robonps@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.