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Oh my god this sounds just like mastodon. Having a social media site dependent on a manual to use and understand just sounds like the worst idea.
by bjornasm 3y ago
Oh my god this sounds just like mastodon. Having a social media site dependent on a manual to use and understand just sounds like the worst idea.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoI just love it when people at HN complain about a freaking web site being too difficult to use. Quite some hackers we are! Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy.
- joseph8th 3y agoSame. And since I chose the SDF instance, I went ahead and finally got myself an sdf.org shell. A new toy to me, though it's been around since 1987.
- guraf 3y ago> Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy. Do you really not see the problem? For Lemmy to face any hope of becoming mainstream your statement should be "less than 5 minutes". Maybe that barrier to entry is a pro to you, and that's fair, but surely you understand the criticism that a social network should be usable without reading a guide, yes?
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoSo just to be clear on a few things: * This "less than one hour" I'm talking about includes really being familiar with the UI, concept and new terminology. * I'm not really concerned if Lemmy becomes truly mainstream. I just find it funny that the crowd in HN of all places is so helpless that reading a FAQ and learning a few new names for basically old concepts is so bad that it needs to be constantly complained about. How on earth would these people have survived the pre-2010 internet? * I did not need to read a guide, just a short FAQ and some fiddling around to understand the concept.
- WalrusOperator 3y ago[dead]