There's also a lot of people complaining about how confusing the federated nature of the platform is, not sure which instance to choose, not getting approved to join an instance, or confused as to why there are multiple communities for the same thing.

I have no doubt Lemmy will grow as a platform, but the user friendliness is nothing like a centralised platform.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Most of these problems are totally avoided by just giving someone a link to an instance and not mentioning federation, there won't be any differences from Reddit in using it unless that particular instance has unusual signup requirements.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's definitely a good idea, make it as easy as possible

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I do this, but every comment I make gets removed by either a subs automod or a reddit admin.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The instances that make you fill out a questionnaire and perform interviews make me lol.

Ain't nobody wanna do that.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I agree, this is a big problem with future Fediverse adoption, and a big reason why servers like lemmy.world are unfortunately so big. Not only does it limit the ability for new people to sign up but it limits the pool of existing users and interaction significantly, especially when the majority of servers do it.

I wish more people would publicly discuss this problem and that efforts would be made to make more servers instant-signup friendly.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, for topic specific instances who want to attract a specific set of users, I can totally understand why they would do that. Those probably shouldn't be the go-to instances we recommend to random Redditors though.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

"For those wanting to try Lemmy you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content, if you want a mobile app you can use https://vger.app/settings/install"

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember when signing up and using Facebook was too much for people, or even typing. My parents still won't put in their card details online. People adapt.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

If they want to, yes. There has to be a compelling reason for most people to do something like that though.