I don’t know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.

Edit: running total including the commenter: 18 people

  • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    21 hours ago

    Any time I’ve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words “instance” or “federated.” I’ve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      Magic box is magic. Anything else hurts most people’s brains.

      In a way, it’s impressive we got this far technologically before we started losing the plot, considering we evolved for the pointy-sticks-and-fire level.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’

      • Hyphlosion@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        This made me think about my struggles with trying to learn moves in fighting games.

        The tutorial can’t tell me the move with actual button combinations. No. Instead I have to read it as punch + kick + grab first. And because I’m a friggin’ noob, I have to try to interpret what buttons those actions are.

        How is this relevant? It really isn’t, the more I think about it. Bad comparison. Ah well. At least you know how sad I am at fighting games now.

    • vatlark@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      21 hours ago

      Yeah it’s an annoying stumbling block. Blue Sky “fixed” that by only having one instance.

      It feels like there should be a sign up page that just gives users a default instance (randomly selected from the top 10 maybe), to avoid the problem.

      • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        20 hours ago

        Blue Sky “fixed” that by only having one instance.

        I suppose we could “fix” it in a similar way by inviting people to a specific instance instead of pointing them at join-lemmy.org.(Although that site has improved massively since the last time I saw it.)

        Don’t even mention instances or federation, just say “hey you should join me on <favorite instance URL>”.

        Once they are using it, that’s the first hurdle, and they’ll notice pretty quickly that there are other servers that all (mostly) talk to each other.