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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by RalfWausE on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:50AM (#36548425)
>But most people don't care about that. It's a social network, and they want to use it as one

I would honestly say: "Fuck them"

The Web was a better place before it was too easy to use and the unwashed masses entered. If they don't want to learn... let them stay in their walled garden.

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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by HKH2 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:54AM (#36548754)
Right. Reddit isn't going anywhere.
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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by merdaverse on Sunday July 02, 2023 @04:45AM (#36559583)
I've seen plenty of extremely competenet tech people try out Mastodon and then quit because they couldn't bother with the UX and all the problems federation brings.

So no, it's not just "unwashed masses", it's people who value their time too much to spend it on some social media technical issues.

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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by replwoacause on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:50PM (#36568161)
100% agree.
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Re:Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances by rcMgD2BwE72F on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:04AM (#36586851)
>extremely competenet tech people

I'm not competent with tech (I'm not a developer, just a lurker on HN) and I find Mastodon as easy as email if you understand email.

What are these tech people competent about? Do they understand email, at least conceptually?

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