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How can we make Lemmy easier for new users? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I think that the fediverse is in its infancy at the moment (what a time to be here), but when/if things mature there will be a lot more structure and resources available. One example is that you might join a server with instances of multiple services running on it (Lemmy, Mastodon, chat etc...) which will help make some sense of things and prevent the confusion of juggling a bunch of accounts (ideally).

In the short term though, the best one-line explanation I've heard is to "think about it like email: you can sign up on an email server and chat with people, but you can also chat with people on other email servers."

I think the target in the very short term should be disenfranchised power users (most likely starting with people who have a strong interest in technology) since they will be able to contribute feedback, development, and other resources to progress thing.