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

[hobbitfoot@thelemmy.club]

No, but a ton of people got AOL and Prodigy email addresses at first because they got an email address with their account.

[sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works]

Idk I think the sign up phase could be simpler. A default instance and clear short documentation upon sign up would help. I say this not for me (nerd for 30 years) but just got my partner to switch and they were resistent due to the account creation process. Maybe it's just the extra dimensions of "picking an instance" but it is a thing and a blocker for engagement.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

IKR.

Call me a gatekeeper but it's not secret arcane knowledge for a privileged few.

You just sign up the same way you've done anything ever.

[polarpear11@lemmy.world]

Yes, I recently created a Pixelfed account and I definitely balked at the "pick and instance" step. When I joined lemmy (using connect) it didn't ask me to pick an instance to create an account with and eased me into the idea of the fediverse. As a reddit refugee that only left because of morals, I absolutely felt like a fish out of water but I persisted. Others don't wish to persist with something confusing or different. One one hand, that's fine with me, I don't want to share a platform with people like that anyway. On the other hand, if it's not at least a little popular and easy to swallow for new users, growth will be impacted.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

I feel like the default view should be "All".

Also it would be nice to be able to view "All" for a community that shares the same name across all federated instances.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

You can make an account without an email still but it's obscured very well.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

Lemmy.brah

[mac@mander.xyz]

The sign up requirements are that you have to open with "uh saw duuuu"