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Hey everyone, I'm honestly really liking Lemmy so far. Maybe that's because it feels so much like browsing reddit 10 years ago and I think it's safe to say many of us have migrated from the blackout. I'd been a Reddit user since 2010 so I've witnessed the slow decline over the years but popping here has really driven home how corporate it started to feel--less like a genuine hub of community and more like a manufactured product with low effort content and some genuine discussion/input peppered throughout.

That said, does anyone feel the idea of a federated platform might be confusing to some less network-savvy users? There's other successful multi-server platforms like Discord but somehow for me the idea of a 'chatroom' versus something more like a forum/board seems like it would make more sense to a less informed user. I could see hearing that posts are aggregating from other sites or being cross-visible confusing to individuals who understand web usage as, 'visit site--post to site--view content on site'.

Does that make sense? lol Anyways, loving the site so far--hope to see it grow!

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[โ€“] birdmancaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only joined yesterday or the day before but I have to admit, I'm not loving this place so far. Adding communities that are not part of this instance is a giant PITA. The whole instance getting federated or defederated seemingly at the whim of the instance host is a bit sus to me too. Also, for some reason when I'm typing it just keeps having a popup saying "report created" in the bottom left. This place also is just as much of an echo chamber as Reddit from what I have seen, which is by far my biggest gripe with Reddit.

[โ€“] Hedup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It actually sounds like you would've been way more satisfied if you joined some instance like beehaw.org that have a more sanitized approach to all this. But then again you said you don't want defederation. Seems like you want to eat the cake, but also have it.

[โ€“] birdmancaw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Beehaw less of an echo chamber? Reading their sidebar it seems like it would be even more of one. I'm curious as to why you think I might be happier there. Is it easier to navigate somehow?

[โ€“] Hedup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just imagined that because they are vetting you when you register. But surely you can just join any other small instance and customize your feed. You can even stay in lemmy.world instance and unsubscribe from /c/lemmy.world and other lemmy world communities to spare yourself those echoes.