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

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.

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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!

sunzu2

Can people even make semi anon accounts for reddit anymore. It seems unless they can finger print you and associate your account to real ID, they won't let you post.

Even if you slip through, the account will get banned within days

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Yeah well maybe they should come here.

That's the idea!

“just go on lemmy brah”

This works. Please do it politely.

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I miss a lot of the niche communities of reddit that still had engagement. Lemmy doesn't have all that I used to have, but I decided to join anyway. Not everyone will do that, and like you said that makes the resistance to change even stronger.

Blaze (he/him)

It's fine to use both, most people do

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There are plenty of older folks here, he was just barely relevant as it was.

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Joining the fediverse isn’t hard. If you can’t figure out the onboarding process, it’s because you were looking for a reason to not join.

Rikudou_Sage

Many of the points are bullshit and that's without even having any context, it's evident from the posts themselves.

Like the part where he allegedly "threatened legal action" - all he was saying is that outside fedi/oss that would mean a legal action, sounds like pointing out the advantages of oss/fedi, not threatening a legal action.

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Yeah if you want to that's fine. I choose not to.

Drunemeton

That’s okay Dad! I’m sure that one from 2007 is gonna kill….

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Nah. 2007 was the year "The Big Bang Theory" began airing. Clearly not a good year for comedy.

Bananza!