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Yeah I work in computer science and one of my bandmates works in cybersecurity, so both of us are at least top 1% computer literacy if not higher. And we were just talking earlier today about how ridiculous the barrier of entry is to using this site. I'm pretty much only here because I'm fucking insane and no barrier of entry is too high to stop me from climbing over AND it was easier for me to figure out anyway due to me being naturally inclined to this kind of thing.
Idk I am not smart and only took 1 year of computer science but I caught on pretty quickly. The instances vs community thing was easy to comprehend. The only thing that confused me was how Mastodon, lemmy, and kbin interact. I thought I needed a separate account for kbin but turns out I don't, for the most part at least. I'm not interested in Twitter so I haven't looked into Mastodon, but it's probably the same.
I honestly don't think it's as bad as everyone's making it out. It's different, and that's the whole of the problem. It's not a monolithic replacement for Reddit. It can totally replace Reddit, but it's not Reddit 2.0.
You join and small or medium sized server and search for the communities you want. If you pop onto a node what's a decent number of people and don't see a lot of shady shit happening, You're probably in a good place to settle down.
Reddit is like going to Walmart. You want car tires, a pack of frozen burritos, a pair of socks you just run around to the store and buy whatever you want, but you're also at the mercy of what they want to sell you.
Lemmy It's like running around to a bunch of small to medium sized convenience stores, If one place doesn't treat you right there are hundreds or thousands of others that have no such hangups.
Going from Lemmy server to Lemmy server needs to be a little more transparent, and group subscription to similar communities across different servers needs to be a thing.
I've had no problems discovering communities off server. In a few cases I've joined like communities on more than one server subscribe to them and I just get all the posts.
In the end, I think all the small communities will get gobbled up by the larger ones.
My favorite part of Lemmy is that no one person or even groups of people can ruin things for everyone. If you don't like how things are you can go to another place where you do or you can make your own place.