I came here because Reddit is changing, and I don’t like it. I’m generally helpful. But if someone is being an idiot, or a bigot. I want to point and laugh at them if I so choose.

For a while the content on Reddit has been lacking, and people (myself included) are having to watch what they say. I wanted to find a place where I can generally be helpful and share my “old person knowledge”, but if someone’s being an a not great human being. I don’t have to be afraid to tell them so.

The biggest problem that I see with Lemmy is the sign up process. If someone were to ask me to explain to them how to sign up. I’m not sure I could. Like I googled “how to create Lemmy account”. I found a Reddit post that offered a list of Lemmy instances. The first like 3 I tried didn’t work.

When I finally found one that let me create a login. The rest was pretty easy. Honestly, since getting here I enjoy Lemmy more than Reddit these days. I don’t quite have my news dialed in like I want yet, but I’ll get there.

Anyway, that’s my two cents as a new user.

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's why, when twitter first got shitty and everyone said to go to Mastodon, not that many people (relatively) did. Because, no one knew how to explain it in a way for non techy people to understand or want to deal with.

I also think it's much easier to explain now, tell them to go to https://join-lemmy.org/ and pick a server. "which one?" Doesn't matter, click one, read the sidebar, If you agree with what they said then sign up, if not pick another one. (Or just tell them to pick the one you signed up for already) That's your lemmy site now and you can see all the content from the all the other lemmy sites from yours unless it's blocked.

Same thing for Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org/servers

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

If it is not important, that join-lemmy cound just send them to random one, and not asking confusing questions.

[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping that as the platform matures and we start seeing various apps and even more web-based interfaces like ~wefwef~ Voyager, the signup process will be handled by those apps themselves. Like, a bunch of instances agree to be listed or something, and the app randomly selects one to present the new user on signup as a default, which both distributes the "load" across instances, but also provides a simple default.

I know the above proposal has problems; it's a 30-second spitball idea, not anything I'm spending more time thinking about seriously.