Piracy

I did and still do. The concept at a high level makes sense, but the application leaves me with questions.

The most confusing thing is that there is no "Lemmy" site. Rather its a federation of independent sites sharing content and comments. This is probably good practice for the transition to web 3.0 stuff. (and its the first time that I've ever thought that Web3.0 was legit and not just a bunch of marketing bs).

Once you're on an instance, the rest SHOULD be transparent to the user.

But there are many technical hurdles (posts from unfederated instances missing, finding communities on another instance). There IS a learning curve where before there was almost none (just sign up at Reddit.com and start browsing).

To be fair, Lemmy is not mature, and the benefits of the fediverse are worth the learning curve. But that friction definitely could be reduced.