Whenever barrier to entry is discussed for lemmy, and reducing confusion for different servers is brought up, all of the isolationist comments come out of the woodwork.
Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?
We have a platform that seems to be working and slowly growing. Shouldnt we want good defaults in place to give the best possible experience with minimal user effort?
I don’t think Lemmy is going to catch on. There’s too much friction every step of the way, at least in my experience with it. I still enjoy using Lemmy, but I can see why the majority of people won’t end up making the switch
But it will eat a share of the pie, which is kind of good for killing Reddit.
A lot of people think that Twitter as an example died overnight, it did not.
Mastodon took a good share of users out of it and then Bluesky came and finished it off.
Giant platforms don’t die, they just keep bleading users till they become irrelevant(as Tumblr fer example).
What friction is there compared to besides picking an instance that works for the user?
Too often people say “There’s too much friction every step of the way” when it’s literally 1 extra step. That extra step might be a big pain itself, but don’t exaggerate and make it out like there’s more steps and pain than there really is