Re:Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:38PM
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> Is it really that hard for someone who browses hackernews to get set up on a federated platform
I got it to work. Most of us on here can get it to work. But it's a pain, there's a daily bug to contend with, and when I consider that process for others I know together with the community's hostility towards feedback which entails a better onboarding process, it doesn't strike me as worth it. (There are definitely folks for whom it's worth it. But you have to put a premium on federation for its own sake, and a large premium at that.)
Re:Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
by hombre_fatal on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:14PM
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Just because we might be tech-savvy doesn't mean we have an affinity for jumping through hoops that we don't think are worth it.
Re:Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
by johnnyanmac on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:00PM
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Agreed, but I'm also confused. I made a kbin and lemmy.world account about as easily as I would a reddit account. Are the servers still impacted for some?
The new UI and general idea of federation takes some figuring out, but the high level experience of "see a post, click, read comments, comment" isn't any different from Hackernews.
I get that it is not a ubiquitous solution, but after my experiences on mastodon.social and others, I'm really starting to wonder just how genuine the sentiment behind "it's hard to sign up" is. It's not that hard at all - I have found it a lot easier than doing something like creating a modern facebook or google account for instance.