submitted 2 years ago by hotdog@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I wish there was an alternative to leaving Reddit

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Tricky thing is going to be the onboarding process for laypeople. Problem with the fediverse is helping people wrap their heads around servers. People think the server is the "community." And it kind of is, and it kind of isn't. Servers are a community of people, but severs also host capital C "Communities" within them.

This is probably the biggest thing holding back the adoption of the fediverse. This user experience problem hasn't been cracked. Onboarding isn't intuitive.

[-] Photographer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

The confusion is the signup process and front page

If when you joined instead of picking a user name it was username @lemmy.world or @beehaw.org then people would see it more like an email address.

Then when you reach the front page instead of showing server admin picks, it should show a list of popular communities across servers and then the alternative local version with some text at the top explaining multiple versions of some communities exist and you can subscribe to both.