I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of

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    I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it’s been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It’s like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It’s been great, like the old days.

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      back in the day, normal forum software was considered “too hard”

      signing up for an account on another site at all was “too much”

      now signing up on a federated system is “too confusing”

      tomorrow it will be running your own edge node will be “too intense”

      they will do it anyway. it will be baked in, these solutions aren’t just good for individuals, they are good for all users and make the internet better.

      Standards>Sites.

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        I really don’t understand, how is it difficult? You just type a username and pick a password…

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          there were multiple reasons we called them walled gardens. Users of AOL and CompuServe systems were very unaccustomed to having to create more accounts initially. It was amusing and sometimes frustrating to watch that userbase join the rest of the internet.

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            I recently had a similar experience with a long-time iOS user switching to Windows and Android for work.

            Let’s just say she wasn’t happy that she actually had to go to the internet to download stuff and my introduction to F-Droid as an alternative to the PlayStore was met with “but that’s not official”.

            Some users probably just need the comfort of their golden cage.