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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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"