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Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This reminds me of Tom Scott's excellent video on electronic voting machines, where he mentioned that the system for counting votes needs to be easily understandable to the average person so that they can adequately trust it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I still think defederation is the biggest hurdle. It would be a lot easier if you could just tell people it didn't matter what instance they join, they will be able to follow anyone.

Usually when I mention it people will talk about all the reasons defederation exists, but it doesn't change the fact that if a normal person has to start looking up what instance they can follow uncle ReaganLover69 on, they're probably going to stay on twitter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's not.

It's literally a concept no normie knows about nor would care about.

They are not trying to follow some tankie on a banned Marxist instance, they're trying to follow cute cat pictures on lemmy.world.

End of the day, just like with safe site filters etc, you'll end up with most instances following similar enough protocols and federating with each other and the vast majority of people seeing the vast majority of people, with some fringes blocked for some people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Until you accidentally end up on an instance that defederated from lemmy.world and are confused why there are no cute cat pictures

Is there a way to easily find an instance based on what you want to use lemmy for, not just what the instance is about?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a weird internal problem. It has to exist for understandable reasons, but also naturally makes it so that nobody will want to join any but the very largest instance, automatically centralizing it all again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Plenty of people are joining other instances than LW