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Hey everyone, I'm honestly really liking Lemmy so far. Maybe that's because it feels so much like browsing reddit 10 years ago and I think it's safe to say many of us have migrated from the blackout. I'd been a Reddit user since 2010 so I've witnessed the slow decline over the years but popping here has really driven home how corporate it started to feel--less like a genuine hub of community and more like a manufactured product with low effort content and some genuine discussion/input peppered throughout.

That said, does anyone feel the idea of a federated platform might be confusing to some less network-savvy users? There's other successful multi-server platforms like Discord but somehow for me the idea of a 'chatroom' versus something more like a forum/board seems like it would make more sense to a less informed user. I could see hearing that posts are aggregating from other sites or being cross-visible confusing to individuals who understand web usage as, 'visit site--post to site--view content on site'.

Does that make sense? lol Anyways, loving the site so far--hope to see it grow!

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[โ€“] Kovari@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This might be a hot take but...

Is the interface really that terrible? I feel that if it were as easily accessible aa reddit or even facebook then we would be bombarded with so many brain dead posts by users who don't understand how to get through a computer and therefore the quality of posting and discussion goes way down.

I'm probably wrongly stereotyping and judging here but I had to say it.

[โ€“] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The structure of the interface isn't bad, but I've encountered a lot of issues stemming from mistakes as novice as ID collisions. It works on phones, but it doesn't look great. At best, it keeps itself simple, which is a positive.

[โ€“] Anonymous0573@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It seems like a win but tech-literate is not equal to smart. Let's say we want advice about cars. Now all the older mechanics who are very smart and technical with cars but not as much with computers won't bring their expertise here. I really want Lemmy to take off. I think it is a good replacement for the scrolling and time-wasting that Reddit provides but I'm worried it will never be a useful resource the same way Reddit is. I think a lot would need to change for that to happen.