Why the hell should I listen to that? This is just stupid.

No, but I see why people would like them. I personally don’t like them because I feel like it’s almost always an unnecessarily long scene to begin with. If it’s more than 10 seconds, it just feels like it’s meant to make people horny.

If the people posting on 196 are over 30 years old, then you guys have really stepped up your game.

Haha, honestly I feel similarly. I only really started learning about it after I signed up because I was trying to figure out why the word “federated” was being thrown around a lot.

I though the signup process itself was rather straight-forward, I don’t necessarily understand where the confusion lies. I signed up for Lemmy like I would any other website once I learned that your account carries across instances. Maybe folk just get caught up on whether or not it’s the right instance to sign up on.

How interesting! It’s nice to see the Fediverse in action.

Personally, not in the near future. If the process to sign up gets more streamlined along with people not worrying too much about the federation part, then yeah it has a chance. I saw some reddit threads on a post that explains how federation works, and there was a lot of push back because they felt they had needed to understand everything to even use the website.