I’ve got to say - I can’t see how this is really going to take off… It’s so confusing.
Let me try to explain a bit…
- Tried making accounts, got one on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world.
- Saw some interesting feeds, but can’t load lemmy.ml (502 error - maybe overloaded). However, the ‘Fediverse’ is linked up - so surely I should be able to find this user and connect to his post without too much hassle?
- Try to visit - he’s on vlemmy.net - I can’t interact without logging in. My account doesn’t work - is it a different account for every instance?
- Compared to ten minutes on Reddit, after 2 days I still haven’t found content and/or interaction that I want. I kind of understand how cool federated stuff is, but I cannot get to the product.
- r/firefox r/linux r/angryupvote r/jokes - you know… stuff!
I follow a link for the user and end up seeing that I am not logged in, but a note says:
‘If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.’
I don’t understand this - How? Where? There’s no context menu…
I AM LOGGED IN here and now… What gives?
If it’s this hard for me, I’m sure that this rules out 99% of internet users from switching over… as I’m sure that more than 75% of Reddit users are dumber than I am.
Oh, and finally now I see another notice:
If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.
WTF does that mean? Where did I select, or have an option to select ‘Undetermined’?
FWIW, your instance is using the lemmy default UI, most instances are. Ive seen templates going around, ive not seen anyone using them though.