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[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 31 points 2 days ago

It seems part of the problem is that a lot of people from here want to explain Reddit users why federated platforms are the only viable options, and the Reddit users misunderstand this explanation of how the platforms work and why they have to work that way as an explanation of how to use them.

Using Lemmy or Piefed is not hard. Understanding why centralized alternatives is not an alternative at all, now that requires you to be interested and understand some things. But we don't really need people to understand that. We just need them to sign up for some instance or another. Preferably not a tankie one.