tbf I also was confused as hell when I joined reddit. Don't need to know everything to participate.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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But, after all that it's still better than Reddit.
Typical Fediverse take.
Oh no I don't know how to choose a server and sign up, in fact I appear to not know anything at all.
- some end user
I swear to fucking god, when I become an end user, please shoot me in the head alright? I don't want to look like the biggest fucking moron on earth to anybody that is able to Google and read something for like 30 seconds.
I don't think the usability of Lemmy is the problem, it's just users not wanting to tune out of mainstream social media. Everybody is there. Why wouldn't they? It's where everyone is. And convincing people that the massive shift in the type of content you can consume is worth it to not be consuming the content all your friends consume. It's a catch 22. The only thing we can do is to post as much content in the fediverse as possible. I don't think framing the general public as incompetent is helping either. Of course you didn't make the comparison in the first place. I really hope the vast majority of the users of social media are able to Google something.
we need more of these people more or less, even though yes, they're dumb, that's like.. most of the population when it comes to the internet (like, only the young people even know of reddit here, much less use it..) and then there's the specific niches that are barely living in lemmy.. ah, end users..
The fediverse is big enough for everyone, and unless there's ill-intent or something damaging in a user/instance, I don't see any point with excluding them. All this would do is limit growth, and may actually be the attitude that let's it shrink into a slow death.
If you don't like a user or instance, block them and go about your business.
My main thing right now is trying to figure out how to visit/subscribe to other communities, particularly those outside of Aussie.zone