Can I just rant a little to you all?

I’ve tried numerous times to help people from reddit set up an account and get started on Kbin (and lemmy), but 4 out of 5 times people can’t seem to grasp the concept of registering an account and starting to use this platform. Even breaking it down into 2 steps, with direct links… They get angry, and then ragequit their attempt in a huff saying how it’s too fucking complicated and it will never take off because it’s so hard.

Ok, I get that the fediverse is complicated if you think deeply about all the interconnectivity and federation etc, but there is no reason you even have to think about any of it to create an account and get started. Like, at all.

It reminds me so much of my 70/y old mother-in-law not immediately knowing how to work a tv remote and shoving it at me after 1.5 seconds saying “here, I can’t figure this out”. When in reality all she had to do was press the fucking big red button…

I’m just so frustrated with people’s complete lack of ability to help themselves.

  • Flax
    4·
    1 year ago

    I keep clicking links on one fediverse and somehow I become on a different instance and thus logged out, kbin seems promising but no mobile app, Jerboa is glitchy and very WIP. It is hard to grasp. The first time I tried using it I just ended up on different instances and couldn’t log in again, not realising that I was somehow brought to a different instance instead of viewing the post in my instance

    • NekoRogue@beehaw.org
      11·
      1 year ago

      Have you tried Jerboa recently? I had a lot of issues with it at first, but the last two updates improved it a lot. I use Jerboa and I haven’t had any problems with it logging me out on different instances. It still had a few bugs to work out but it’s pretty good right now, with a few more refinements I think it will be really nice.