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.
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.