We're RIGHT HERE

[trailnotfound@lemm.ee]

This is exactly the kind of barrier to entry that keeps people out. You need to pick an instance to sign up, but may not even understand their differences or limitations until you sign up. It's mind blowing to see people act like this doesn't severely limit adoption.

[lemonsqueezy@lemm.ee]

the fediverse needs a simple onboarding process like "signal", to overtly simplify it for casual users. Also, I only heard about loops today and it appears so far it only has a specialized iOS app that requires a special "alpha" mode to be enabled, and no android app. Not exactly ready for primetime.

[pipes@sh.itjust.works]

EasyPeezy for you to say! but yeah if it's not even in the appstore..Pixelfed has seen a boost at least

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

Yeah this is more my take. The sign up process is already pretty smooth. Sure some of the theory or technicals might be complicated, but is a centralized platform that has secret algorithms to keep you engaged and push content, some of which may or may not be promoted invisibly you can't always tell -- is that really less complicated? /rq

Like if you type in "join lemmy" or "join mastodon" or hell even "join fediverse" in any search engine, the first result is a website briefly describing the concept and giving your some choices of servers to sign up at.

[rekorse@sh.itjust.works]

We aren't smarter for being here, we just are loners who didnt care who would be here. I think its important for everyone to open up more to strangers especially in multinational spaces. We saw a lot of interesting conversation for the brief time people moved from tiktok to rednote, and that type of stuff dispels misinformation better than anything. You are treating it as a personal thing but it is a social tool for a community.

[dx1@lemmy.world]

What are you basing that on.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

That's kind of my point. People who voted for him seem to think he'll save them from the long string of rich, old, white people who have been doing all the harm when he's really just the same, turned up to 11.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

See response above.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

Sure. Makes sense.

[lemonsqueezy@lemm.ee]

every little bit helps, hopefully the steady "drip" of user growth can take over, in the long run. As long as people stay on these platforms.