Alongside that more reasonable point of individual features, alot of people are mad that the service is instance based and are angry that that there isn't a single iteration of communities, IE only one /c/aww or /c/vets or whatever.

Basically they fled a central organizational authority and got mad there's no central organizational authority.

[–] kilojoules@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (14 children)

This is a steep learning curve and confusing. It would be helpful to get some orientation after landing

[–] CannaVet@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Lemmy.world has a little guide. I totally understand there being a learning curve, I'm IT so don't have much trouble but I get that people are flocking from "just works" land and most people have zero idea how any tech works.

My problem isn't people struggling to learn how this different system works, my problem is people who come HERE instead of one of the available more direct Reddit clones then refusing to learn how this system works, bitching that it isn't Reddit, and start harping that the devs need to make it Reddit. If you just want New Reddit, that option is available. A couple, in fact. Lemmy got some buzz though and people want to be cool kids, instead of picking the more suitable option for them. Shit's frustrating to me as a user, and I feel for the devs who have been working on this specific vision for this project then just wake up to 1,000 "MAKE IT REDDIT I WANT EVERYTHING ON ONE INSTANCE CAUSE I'M USED TO IT" posts.

Rant aside, I'm no Lemmy expert but if you have questions about how things work, I'll do my best to help.

[–] Swoggles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm brand new and I have spent ~~almost a week ~~ a few days trying to log on for a second time (first time worked great, always timed out after that). But I'm here now!

One thing that has been frustrating is that 90% of the time I've seen someone say that it's confusing, people just say IT'S SO EASY, TRY LEARNING and then the learning materials describe the concept of the fediverse and Lemmy but not how to use it.

I still don't really understand. I've used a hundred different forums and forum-adjacent type services, and Lemmy seems to be similar enough to Reddit, except that each server is it's own reddit, but if anyone on the server is connected to another server, it'll pull in communities followed by anyone on the server?

Again, I don't really get it. I'm trying, but it's a bit confusing. I get that it's decentralized and all the servers are unique and it's one login, but I don't get how the communities fit together between servers, if they do at all. Would this mean that we can have duplicate communities on different servers?

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

That's funny because one of the first things I read about Lemmy after learning of it was the "Don't tell people it's easy" article:

https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

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