Lots of people asking questions about the fediverse over at /r/fediverse

[email protected]

But there's not many current users over there to ask questions. If you still have a reddit account and are willing to help some folks out, please consider doing so!

Blaze (he/him)

I had a quick look, seems like @[email protected] did some some heavy lifting as usual

Meldrik

"I'm very tech-savvy, but I don't understand how the Fediverse work" - Then continues to write FUD... I'm so tired lol

[email protected]

This sort of attitude would deter me. Don't act like that.

Blaze (he/him)

If Pixelfed can reach 186k monthly active users in a week thanks to IG users, than I'm really not sure how tech savvy that person is indeed

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I mean... people who understand how the fediverse works... are already here.

[email protected]

It is the "problem" of how accessible everything is. I know plenty of genuinely amazing coders who have no idea how an operating system (let alone the hardware it runs on) works because they don't need to know. EVERYONE has stories of people who don't understand directory structures because they grew up on google drive.

And it REALLY does not help that the average fediverse evangelist can't shut up and just give a simple answer.

In the Warframe space? What I and others have noticed works REALLY well is to tell the person trying it out "At the end of a mission you are going to get like 40 currencies. Ignore that shit, it doesn't matter". And in fediverse stuff? The answer is just to say "It is like having an email account at gmail or hotmail or whatever"*. It doesn't matter. Just go to join-lemmy.org or whatever and pick one of the top servers after doing their questionnaire".

Instead we have "Well, you need to understand federation and why it is so important. Read this white paper and then come back to me and I'll suggest a few youtube videos that explain what you are having trouble with"

*: The fact that I couldn't think of a good email provider that normies use IS the problem.

[email protected]

Generally, I don't believe it's actually an issue with complication. There's just a resistance to change. That said there's still significant onus on those invested in the fediverse to make sure It Just Works^tm^

[email protected]

I appreciate folks making the effort to help over there. I nuked my 12-year-old account and try not to give them any additional traffic, but onboarding new folks is probably one of the best arguments for activity there

Rentlar

Quite unfortunate. I still have my account, but in 2023 I swore never to post or comment on Reddit ever again. Their loss, but I'm happy to welcome anybody to Lemmy that has taken the plunge. I know we need messengers/recruiters to grow, and I'm happy for everyone going there on our behalf, but I am sticking to my vow.

[email protected]

Be sure to let them know the Fediverse is kind of like the Marvelverse. Except instead of being a universe of Marvel, it's a universe about Kevin Federline! The Fediverse!!!!

.......I just realized that joke is so old that it's not culturally relevant anymore. Nobody knows who K-Fed was......or cares.

Dammit! It's a funny joke if this were 2006!

[email protected]

Yeah well maybe they should come here. Lol not to be too harsh. What kinda questions are there anyway? More importantly, what questions are there that can't be answered by "just go on lemmy brah"?

Meldrik

There should be a link, that redirects you to the registration page of a random (maybe based on geo ip) Lemmy server. Just don't mention to the user that they have a choice of servers. Just have them register and get on. Later, while using the Fediverse, they will learn how it works and be able to understand what it means to choose a Lemmy server yourself.

Anything else is just too complicated for the average person, I think. Hell, I think domain names other than lemmy.xxx is confusing some people.

asudox

Found this out from that subreddit: https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/

That's very interesting. It did change my view of dansup.

[email protected]

My personal view on this is Dansup absolutely suffers from the instinct of not open sourcing stuff until it’s fairly late in the stage of being an MVP, but I think that’s largely because he’s learning these technologies as he goes and is afraid of criticism on that front. Personally, however, I do not think it is the case that he does not believe in the Open Source project. I also trust him when he says he’s working towards a nonprofit to distribute the load. It seems his first steps are to get funding via kickstarter to quit his job, and then I imagine organizing a nonprofit structure is next.

[email protected]

Fedi observer does something like this.

Blaze (he/him)

random (maybe based on geo ip) Lemmy server.

Random servers usually give lackluster experiences: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536

Blaze (he/him)

Warframe

Just checked about https://dormi.zone/, good to see it's still around

asudox

As the author said in the website, saying a platform is open source when you haven't even released the source is nothing but wrong.

And that is not the only thing he has done it seems.

[email protected]

Yeah well maybe they should come here.

That's the idea!

“just go on lemmy brah”

This works. Please do it politely.