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Frankly? Good.
I hate to be the asshole, but if someone is either that stupid, or that unwilling to put in even the most basic effort, I don't want them here.
My mom signed herself up for lemmy. In her early seventies, kinda ignorant of tech stuff, and did it all on her lonesome. So did my 12 year old niece. So did my cousin with Downs.
Yeah, a kid with downs syndrome could manage to sign up for lemmy. Didn't need any help beyond "hey, hairball, which lemmy?". That's it. Just wanted to know what instance he should pick.
But he sure as fuck got logged in just fine.
So, when I see these people on reddit that can't be bothered to do what you would do on any website that you have trouble logging into, I'm perfectly fine with them not being here. They aren't going to be bringing anything useful with them at all.
That's the sort of gatekeeping that keeps a service as a tiny niche forever.
Eternal September is the goal?
It's curious how so many people on this community about discussing the growth of the fediverse view the fediverse growing as a negative.
I want it to grow but I am fine with an idiot filter
Were you even alive when Eternal September happened?
I was born before the Reagan administration
That doesn't prove anything. You could have been 12 in 1993 if your we're born during the Carter administration leaving you in the same cohort those bitchless knobs were whinging about back then.
You asked if I was alive. Yes, I was.
Was I on Usenet? Nope, but my family were very early adopters of computer and internet technology 🤷🏻♀️