Someone posted a good infographic about the fediverse over on kbin in RedditMigration (another complicated wrinkle in this whole fediverse thing) that did a great job explaining this whole fediverse thing.

If only I could link it.

Edit: jerboa editor doing me dirty

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Docu-what now?

Seriously, if the average user needs to understand distributed systems to play in the fediverse pool, they are going to land back at Reddit. Just get people in the door (any door) and fight the technical debt that creates later.

Sure, it's a shit plan. But, it's the only way to really capitalise on the current moment. With both Twitter and Reddit blasting away at their own feet, there is a real opportunity for something better to step up. The fediverse can be that thing. But, not if people end up gatekeeping it. Less Stallman style, "RTFM!" And more, "hey, welcome. Let's get you set up."

[–] zouhair@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, that's my point. We need a cheat sheet easy to read that gives most of the necessary information to create an account and use different instances and how to post from one to another.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html is good but way too much for newcomers

[–] amki@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, the first page is already too much text, where is the easy to consume infographic explaining it in comic style? :/

[–] f_lambda@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that there are pictures, but they're failing to load atm.

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Idk what's going on, I just know I'm ready for open source options. I'm signed up here and mastodon now and plan to use the duration of the reddit strike to learn more about these platforms, delete my activity on others, and slowly build communities so I'm not reliant on others for news and learning.

I don't think it's too difficult to figure out. Seems more like a matter of shifting activity to keep people engaged. I'm far from tech literate, though.

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It needs to be explained much better. Compare it to email or something

[–] OzoneThePirate@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I recognize it's easier said than done obviously and I don't have a good solution to propose; but if there was a way to make the app UI more user friendly it might help the understandability of the fediverse and subsequently lower the barrier to entry. Unless someone can figure out how to make it more seemless of an experience, it's gonna be hard to get massive traction