No but it really doesn’t. It’s just a bit more complicated to get your head around it then just registering to reddit. That raises walls. People don’t like to jump over walls. We should make it simpler in some way, or it won’t ever grow.
I’ve never understood this argument. You pick an instance you like, make an account, log in, join the comms that interest you, comment on things, make posts, etc.
This is all very normal internetty type shit that anyone who’s created an account somewhere should be able to do very easily. You don’t need to know anything about federation or how that all works. You don’t need to spin up your own self-hosted instance (but you can if you want).
Am I missing something? It’s really not rocket science here. IMHO, the “fediverse is too hard” sentiment is missing the actually difficult bit, which is getting people away from the ingrained habits formed after years of only using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al.
Actually if there were usecases of facebook & other centralised web blog sites that was like email services, people would get it, but now that they’re used to it it’s not “natural” to get it. Most of the time, I speak of this e-mail example (even if a lot of people just use gmail. Also sometimes communities are abandonned and nobody take them back, which is a big of a stopper here. Also, nobody gets how you can post a comment from mastodon to a peertube video and why you would do it.
But maybe at some point we’ll grow bigger and answer more nicely to all these legitimate questions from all those non-technical users that wan’t to free themselves🤞
I was working phone support a few years back when I asked this one lady what her email address was, and she seemed confused by that question. I started running out of ways to ask something so simple when finally, all exasperated, she said (and I shit you not): “but I don’t have e-mail, I have G-mail!”
So yeah, I get what you’re saying, people’s brains do be rotted these days, sometimes I just forget.
No but it really doesn’t. It’s just a bit more complicated to get your head around it then just registering to reddit. That raises walls. People don’t like to jump over walls. We should make it simpler in some way, or it won’t ever grow.
I’ve never understood this argument. You pick an instance you like, make an account, log in, join the comms that interest you, comment on things, make posts, etc.
This is all very normal internetty type shit that anyone who’s created an account somewhere should be able to do very easily. You don’t need to know anything about federation or how that all works. You don’t need to spin up your own self-hosted instance (but you can if you want).
Am I missing something? It’s really not rocket science here. IMHO, the “fediverse is too hard” sentiment is missing the actually difficult bit, which is getting people away from the ingrained habits formed after years of only using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al.
Actually if there were usecases of facebook & other centralised web blog sites that was like email services, people would get it, but now that they’re used to it it’s not “natural” to get it. Most of the time, I speak of this e-mail example (even if a lot of people just use gmail. Also sometimes communities are abandonned and nobody take them back, which is a big of a stopper here. Also, nobody gets how you can post a comment from mastodon to a peertube video and why you would do it.
But maybe at some point we’ll grow bigger and answer more nicely to all these legitimate questions from all those non-technical users that wan’t to free themselves🤞
Let’s spread the hype I guess ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
I was working phone support a few years back when I asked this one lady what her email address was, and she seemed confused by that question. I started running out of ways to ask something so simple when finally, all exasperated, she said (and I shit you not): “but I don’t have e-mail, I have G-mail!”
So yeah, I get what you’re saying, people’s brains do be rotted these days, sometimes I just forget.