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Exactly like me I'm on a regional instance and still subscribed here remotely I see so many people on reddit obsessing over what server to join that they end up joing no server and getting hung up on things like trying to understand what the fediverse is an activitypub is or they get confused about mastodon vs kabin vs lemmy and so forth the fediverse in general needs to get better at explaining things in normal people language so people don't just end up not joing
Yes that's true but it's also to be expected, as it's a different system and people take time to understand how things work. Go back 20 years ago and it was mostly youths on Facebook, the whole idea of it was just too complicated for most adults. Fast forward to the present day and...
Same here, the new community will be comprised of tech savy and people who like to try new things for a while.
True but i think they could explain things better for the less tech savvy people like instead of talking about email talk about language everyone that speaks English can talk to each other and different protocols are like different languages or like how instances are like bars you may have a bar you go to all the time but you can still visit other bars or call people in other bars from your bar