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[rant] Why is this so hard for people? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by McBinary@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Can I just rant a little to you all?

I've tried numerous times to help people from reddit set up an account and get started on Kbin (and lemmy), but 4 out of 5 times people can't seem to grasp the concept of registering an account and starting to use this platform. Even breaking it down into 2 steps, with direct links... They get angry, and then ragequit their attempt in a huff saying how it's too fucking complicated and it will never take off because it's so hard.

Ok, I get that the fediverse is complicated if you think deeply about all the interconnectivity and federation etc, but there is no reason you even have to think about any of it to create an account and get started. Like, at all.

It reminds me so much of my 70/y old mother-in-law not immediately knowing how to work a tv remote and shoving it at me after 1.5 seconds saying "here, I can't figure this out". When in reality all she had to do was press the fucking big red button...

I'm just so frustrated with people's complete lack of ability to help themselves.

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[–] finthechat@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few weeks ago my neighbor (a nice older woman in her 60s) asked me to fix her TV. I walked into her living room and pushed the power button on the remote.

Sometimes it do be like that.

[–] sab@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other times nice old women are just lonely and make you do random things for company.

[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would rather they just ask me to hang out lol

[–] WTFisthisOMGreally@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Old woman here (if you consider 50 old). There’s no way I’m just going ask some youngun to just hang out with me. I’d feel creepy.

[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well as a young person I love hanging out with the OGs but I understand it can be awkward to get the initial relationship started haha