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by esperent 1087 days ago
> It’s kinda like email

... From a technical perspective. But most people don't care about that. It's a social network, and they want to use it as one. They already have the experience of reddit, where there's thousands of seamless communities and one account gives you access to all of them. Lemmy feels like a big step back for anyone who doesn't care about the technical details. Which is basically everyone.
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wdh505 1087 days ago
The user base is largely techy (I think many came from a post from HN). There are a ton of bugs, and most were unnoticed until the users grew from 20k and now is 2M. Lemmy&kbin&mastadon and its associated FOSS android apps (other than browsers) have a lot of growing pains right now. Thankfully, growing pains do not include all 57M of reddit right now, but the users who did come are heavy hitters and power users (moderators).

I expect that Lemmy will grow and some of the frictions (bugs, unclear accounts, insane instance sysadmins, moderation tools at the community/magazine/subreddit level, moderation tools at the instance/server level, etc.) will decrease in time. The two biggest threats are 1) too many consuming-only users and 2) big-tech (im looking at you Facebook) deciding that they need to directly compete.

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RalfWausE 1087 days ago
>But most people don't care about that. It's a social network, and they want to use it as one

I would honestly say: "Fuck them"

The Web was a better place before it was too easy to use and the unwashed masses entered. If they don't want to learn... let them stay in their walled garden.

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merdaverse 1086 days ago
I've seen plenty of extremely competenet tech people try out Mastodon and then quit because they couldn't bother with the UX and all the problems federation brings.

So no, it's not just "unwashed masses", it's people who value their time too much to spend it on some social media technical issues.

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rcMgD2BwE72F 1084 days ago
>extremely competenet tech people

I'm not competent with tech (I'm not a developer, just a lurker on HN) and I find Mastodon as easy as email if you understand email.

What are these tech people competent about? Do they understand email, at least conceptually?

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replwoacause 1085 days ago
100% agree.
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HKH2 1087 days ago
Right. Reddit isn't going anywhere.
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