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this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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Until your home instance defederates from another instance. Sure, you can always make another account, but your average user wants a lower friction experience.
I'm reasonably active in the fediverse, but I recognize that the more explaining it takes to the average user the less likely they're going to want to join in.
The old old top gear cool wall tried to hit on this concept. You could have a very technically excellent car classified as uncool because if you had to explain why it was cool to a normie you had already lost them.
It will be hard for the fediverse to get over this hump, which is probably why you see so many Linux users here and so few say woodworkers or other (somewhat) more niche communities.
Most average people would never notice defederation unless you told them. It's pretty frictionless and drama free.
The niche communities are always the last to come. It's why they're niche. That techie people are the first is nothing damming. It's always been that way for every service.
That's a good point. Branding is done for a reason. When I buy a car, I don't need to know which companies made each and every component, it's enough for me to know that "Audi" made it.
I guess if someone made an easy entry-point for users to sign up, that became the defacto way to start with Lemmy, then it would have a lower barrier to entry. Maybe it asks them some likes/dislikes, and then it would route them to the most appropriate instance to sign up.