Your idea of having people in your family/friends that help everyone else with joining such communities is nice, but it also depends on some factors: - Do you know such people in your family? - Do you have a family/friends? - Do you want to waste their time with your needs, and how many people must be served by one person?
It may work for some to many people to ask for help with something like this, but not for the masses I think.
Now, it might be that the learning curve is steeper than the existing solutions, but think of all the things you had to learn while using reddit:
- what is a sub?
- What is the difference between posting a link, a text, an image?
- How does voting affect the front-page?
- What is Karma?
- What is a DM?
Now, think of things you'll probably have to learn to use Lemmy.
- what is an instance?
- What is a community?
- How do I find communities to follow?
- What is the difference between "local" and "all"?
Why is it that "the masses" managed to learn how to use reddit, but wouldn't be able to learn Lemmy?
Life would be impossible without it.
(I do my best to avoid snarky responses, but do you realize how your comment amounts to pointless pontification?)
What do you get by "Well actually"-ing me on a completely innocuous aphorism?
Just like email, you do not need to create multiple accounts to talk to people from other servers, unless they have blocked one another. I am confused, I find it likely that HackerNews readers would know this. Perhaps you're making a point?
> So... don't know if that will ever replace Reddit. You really have to be a bit tech-savvy, and most users of the internet aren't.
I'm sure this is a familiar argument to most of us here. People usually focus on technical solutions, making it easier, one-click, fool-proof. I fear that is a game corporations and centralised services have an advantage in.
I have an alternative. It's not an easy solution, but a social solution to this would be to have "family sysadmins". Someone in the family who is at least slightly tech-savvy, helping the other members of the family set up their accounts. There is no need for the average person to understand federation or to be tech-savvy in this case. In other words, "help your family and friends with their IT stuff instead of putting them in the control of big corporations".