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Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. Also, and separately, huh? You can share links on lemmy without logging in. Look, here's one: h

Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. Also, and separately, huh? You can share links on lemmy without logging in. Look, here's one: https://lemmy.ml/post/2069154 https://lemmy.ml/post/2069154 So, you can visit without being prompted to select a server. You can sign up without having to look through servers. And you can share links without logging in. So what am I missing?

MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
You're right; I rewrote my post. But you responded too fast for me to keep up!
dryanau 3y ago
So I clicked "sign up" and it suggested checking if there might be another instance best suited to my needs, so I followed the proposed link to https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/ and got the "join a server"/"run a server" option. After clicking "join a server" and scrolling the list of half added descriptions I just left because it felt like I was supposed to be making a choice about the community I want to join before even checking the damn thing out. Reddit is the opposite, just sign up and explore the subreddits and pick the ones you like. If Lemmy is anything like that, it's not clear at all and my experience turned me away in the exact way the previous poster described. It felt like I had to pick the subreddit first with no idea what was inside. It sucks. It sucks bad and it won't win in its current state.
- OO000oo 3y ago
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- ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  Plus even after doing the steps above you may find you get a 500 error on the email activation link like me.
- nerdbert 3y ago
  Exactly my experience and why I haven't signed up for Lemmy. I don't know what the hell any of those communities are and why/how I should pick one particular one as my home base or whatever, and not getting involved at all seemed like the easiest way forward. I get the sense that there are a lot of competing visions for what Lemmy should be, and I am not interested enough to put myself in the middle of that. There's probably an opportunity to start a modified instance that avoids all this identity stuff and hides the federation aspect as much as possible to make it look like a seamless unified community. That's something I, and I presume many others who were turned off by their first experience with it, might well join.
- glenstein 3y ago
  Lemmy's sign up works just like reddit. It sounds like you were looking at the actual pop up box where the identical-to-reddit registration happens, but instead of completing it you clicked a link that brought you away. So the thing you say you wanted, it was literally right there on your screen and you were looking at it.
nextaccountic 3y ago
> Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. You can't "visit lemmy". Which instance did you visit and signed up, lemmy.ml?
- rotzgoober 3y ago
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- glenstein 3y ago
  You can indeed visit "lemmy" in the sense of visit any instance of Lemmy, and also in the sense of visiting whichever one is tops on google, and also in the sense of visiting lemmy.ml, which is the oldest and perhaps most prominent one. You an also exercise bad faith and construe those as overly literal references to a singular "lemmy," and position yourself as offering a correction wherein you explain what the fediverse is, a correction which depends on that bad faith interpretation, which appears to be your game here.

MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago

You're right; I rewrote my post. But you responded too fast for me to keep up!

dryanau 3y ago

So I clicked "sign up" and it suggested checking if there might be another instance best suited to my needs, so I followed the proposed link to https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/ and got the "join a server"/"run a server" option. After clicking "join a server" and scrolling the list of half added descriptions I just left because it felt like I was supposed to be making a choice about the community I want to join before even checking the damn thing out. Reddit is the opposite, just sign up and explore the subreddits and pick the ones you like. If Lemmy is anything like that, it's not clear at all and my experience turned me away in the exact way the previous poster described. It felt like I had to pick the subreddit first with no idea what was inside. It sucks. It sucks bad and it won't win in its current state.

OO000oo 3y ago
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ParetoOptimal 3y ago
Plus even after doing the steps above you may find you get a 500 error on the email activation link like me.
nerdbert 3y ago
Exactly my experience and why I haven't signed up for Lemmy. I don't know what the hell any of those communities are and why/how I should pick one particular one as my home base or whatever, and not getting involved at all seemed like the easiest way forward. I get the sense that there are a lot of competing visions for what Lemmy should be, and I am not interested enough to put myself in the middle of that. There's probably an opportunity to start a modified instance that avoids all this identity stuff and hides the federation aspect as much as possible to make it look like a seamless unified community. That's something I, and I presume many others who were turned off by their first experience with it, might well join.
glenstein 3y ago
Lemmy's sign up works just like reddit. It sounds like you were looking at the actual pop up box where the identical-to-reddit registration happens, but instead of completing it you clicked a link that brought you away. So the thing you say you wanted, it was literally right there on your screen and you were looking at it.

nextaccountic 3y ago

> Huh? My experience consisted of visiting lemmy and signing up. You can't "visit lemmy". Which instance did you visit and signed up, lemmy.ml?

rotzgoober 3y ago
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glenstein 3y ago
You can indeed visit "lemmy" in the sense of visit any instance of Lemmy, and also in the sense of visiting whichever one is tops on google, and also in the sense of visiting lemmy.ml, which is the oldest and perhaps most prominent one. You an also exercise bad faith and construe those as overly literal references to a singular "lemmy," and position yourself as offering a correction wherein you explain what the fediverse is, a correction which depends on that bad faith interpretation, which appears to be your game here.