Pretty depressing thread tbh, still the same old misconceptions and that sentiment that anything they have to do is a huge roadblock and means Lemmy is doomed to failure, like picking a server is such a huuuuge hurdle..
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still the same old misconceptions
Another interpretation is that these threads are reaching users who haven't heard of Lemmy yet. That would be a positive thing.
On the other hand, there's a strong survivor bias as people genuinely interested in moving are probably already here and left Reddit.
The people still on /r/RedditAlternatives now do probably all have an issue with Lemmy at this point.
That’s why the work you and a couple other lemmings do is so important.
Look at this way, reddit keeps banning ppl and now they are at least becoming aware of lemmy so they'll try it then
It is some kind of hurdle, and on Mastodon is WAY worse. I just chose mine because it was promoted in a subreddit related to my country.
"Just keep on Lemmy. It feels like Reddit did 14 years ago."
For better or worse this really nails it. I also think it's a good reminder that when Reddit conquered Digg it happened over a six month period because there was like 100k users maybe total. There are so many more people involved with Reddit these days it's going to take literal years before Lemmy is anywhere near the same level in terms of MAU.
They think every little thing is some overcomplex hurdle lol, whats the education level of ppl on reddit looking like these days, like you cant remember a website, seeing ppls instances next to their usernames is too confusing? They never used email before? It took me a milisecond to memorize [email protected], and my lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com (hardest to rememeber dont reccomend) and sh.itjust.works, fedia, piefed, and kbin also I think
I really think it’s easiest for new signups to recognize instances with names in the form
lemmy.
So like, lemmy.world, lemmy.zip, lemmy.cafe, lemmy.today, etc etc. lemmy.world is great but it’s already so large, we should distribute some of that load. And some of the other ones are so small I’m not sure if they will survive, then the new signup will be even more upset when their instance disappears, or isn’t properly maintained. Plus some people might have a country preference.
Exact reason I chose lemm.ee, it’s the easiest one to remember.
sh.itjust.works is pretty catchy though
I joined what I thought was a plain simple Star Trek Website how did I end up here please someone help
I'm surprised that the username "Kirk" wasn't already taken on that instance!
I was as surprised as you!
I literally tried sh.itjust.works first! But I kept forgetting where the periods were supposed to go. I guess I’m a dumb redditor after all.
I've been using it as my home instance for almost a year and I still forget sometimes. They could certainly have picked an easier name, I agree.
For me personally, I think it might be for the best that a portion of them can't be bothered. I've watched the quality of Reddit posts and comments erode over the past decade or so. I think one reason is from the user base trending younger. Lemmy feels a bit more like what Reddit was back in the day.
Be careful, someone will be along shortly to tell you how horrible of a person you are for saying you don't think everyone on Reddit should move over.
(I agree, and would say that if we capture the good 5% of the Reddit user base and not the people who clearly have cognitive issues, we're going to have the best thing since uh, Reddit.)
I do remember only going to one site for everything, easy to get stuck that way, took reddit banning me for me to remember forums exist, they aren't completely dead, especially for specific software, a lot of interesting shit out there and the ppl actually know what they're talking about, all the ppl who dont stick to reddit as their singular site
I know right? I was reading like wtf are these responses, some of these are really weird to nitpick about. Couldn’t think of anything nice to say, so I just voted and left it to the nice folks trying to be helpful.
They think every little thing is some overcomplex hurdle lol
okay man sure that's 100% the case.
I was quoting a comment from that thread saying "overcomplex hurdle" I think idr
I popped in there to encourage some having trouble. One seemed pretty grumpy about not remembering an old account as a roadblock for some reason, but hopefully someday they head over here regardless.
grumpy
Yes, that one was a bit surprising. Let's hope indeed!
There's potential in this meme 😄
/u/deeleelee once again penning my exact thoughts
If I ever come across you here, man I owe you some Lemmy Silver
Reddit shadowbans all new accounts. So new users have no idea why nobody replies to them for the first 3 months.
Every time, they raise the bar
They want you scrolling... They don't want your stupid fucking opinions esp if they are not approved by the regime
“Oh No! I have to remember an instance url?! I guess I must stay a slave to master Reddit”
If someone won’t put in the effort to understand federation even the slightest amount, then they will never make the switch and they are just complaining to hear their keyboard tap.
You don’t even have to understand federation to use lemmy. Just pick a big server and use lemmy like you would reddit and it works fine.
This is the message that really needs to be put out there. You don't need to understand how SMTP works to sign up for an email address and start ~~writing people~~ receiving spam.
This is the literal exact same thing. It's not like they understand Reddit's backend either, why are they getting hung up on this?
It's a wonder they remember Gmail to get their email.
False equivalence.
How so?
they are just complaining to hear their keyboard tap.
Well said
It’s wild to me that people are still using that shit site. I dumped it so quick once those bullshit bans started going cos it’s looking like musk has evidence on spez being a pedo and it’s just going to turn into twitter