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I feel like the focus on explaining federation and the fediverse can be overwhelming and confusing for new mainstream users.
Instead of focusing on the technical details, it might be more helpful to simply direct them to a few major servers (instances) like lemmy.world, beehaw.org, and lemmy.ml and tell them to make an account (or lurk) and explore. The advanced features, namely being able to subscribe to communities in other instances, should be eased into it later.
That is something I think kbin.social has done a better job of. Yes, there are other instances of kbin, but new users are told start with that one and slowly branch out from there.
And for those interested in seeing lemmy's growth, this page is amazing: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
"The advanced features, namely being able to subscribe to communities in other instances, should be eased into it later"
I understand this and I would at first agree, but subscribing to communities is basically the most important thing and it's frustrating/deterrent to learn that it's on other websites and you can't directly subscribe just like you can on other websites like you might on Reddit or Facebook or any other aggregator
I mean you don't have to link people to join-lemmy. We can just link them to lemmy.ml or whatever and using it is exactly like reddit.