Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform.
Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform.
I tried to explain the concept of Lemmy and most said this whole concept of federation sounds too complicated for some social media site they use on the toilet or when going to bed…
So I think accesibility ia the biggest problem, even though Lemmy isn’t actually that hard to use, it just sounds hard to use. I think many more people join in if they wouldn’t have to pick an instance
I guess with the average person just send them to LemmyWorld describing it like reddit and then let them figure out the rest. Instances may sound scary at first until they’re not.
Don’t send them to the largest instance. Send them to one of the slightly smaller but still stable instances, like lemm.ee or feddit.org. Best for everyone if we spread out a bit.
I senf people to lemm.ee by default.
Sh.itjust.works has a funny name, feddit.org is German speaking and lemmy.ca is Canada oriented
Is it exclusively? The sidebar says “German and English-speaking”, but the local frontpage seems to be dominated by !ich_iel@feddit.org…
Not exclusively German, but the meta discussions about the instance happen in German, so not ideal for new comers, Lemmy can be confusing enough without adding language barriers 😄
Oh, that would explain why their Matrix chat so incomprehensible… (to me)
Excellent point.
Skip the federation. Just give them to link to an instance and a few communities.
That’s enough to start
Lemmy isn’t THAT hard to use, but it’s def not as user friendly as Reddit at first glance. That’s why I waited a bit to come here. Turns out that it’s not that hard, but it def does NOT look friendly when you come from Reddit. So many versions, you don’t know which one, so many instances, etc.
But reddit has become such an asshole if one doesn’t subscribe to their exact political narrative, I finally switched over today. I legit got banned because I posted a news article about the Green Party to the r /politics sub.
I immediately used VPN and just created another account, so not a huge deal. But then I was like, why? I want something new. Fuck reddit.
So the news that reddit may start charging is just icing on that shitcake.
The Boomers and Xoomers can destroy Reddit like they did Facebook while Spez sells the data from the golden years.
It won’t last long. I am guessing almost all of prime Reddit years have been scraped and the interest in the AI shitposting that remains won’t be worth much for anyone.