I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
Do you think creating a Lemmy account is that much harder then creating a reddit account (or any other website account)?
Yes it is. Because immediately you are faced with having to pick a server. And then grasp and navigate the fediverse, which depending on the use case is not as straightforward. There’s generally more hoops to make things happen. Depending on the server you pick, the UI is not all that intuitive. And then you have things like mbin forks which swap terminology.
So no harder than email then
Signing up to Gmail is way more streamlined than any Lemmy instance sign up
There’s that echo chamber at play
That accounts for some users I guess, there’s probably also some who stumble upon some instance directly and don’t learn about federation until some time after they register
Yes because people from reddit are constantly asking how to do it and what an instance is
In my opinon its because there is an approval gap. When create a reddit account you open reddit > enter email and password > you’re dropped into reddit on an unverified account.
For lemmy: you get linked to lemmy (could be any instance) then you press the sign up button and submit an application > then you wait for hours to days for that to be approved and you cant login during that period.
Yeah true but the verification is avoidable on certain instances. It’s just hard to explain that different instances have different sign up rules.
Have you looked at the signup page for your Lemmy instance lately?
I just did. The age verification is the only thing that looks slightly confusing, and anyone keen enough would deal with that fine. It’s not a technical skills/knowledge barrier, it’s just reading comprehension.
People ask how to make a Lemmy account all the goddamn time. You’re experiencing is preventing you from understanding how it looks to a new user. Go to any big sm platform and there’ll be so much less clutter on the screen and fewer things to do