this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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People on the internet always over-estimate the attention span, effort, and tech literacy of the average individual. Most people are going to open the website, be confused at which website they are supposed to join and close the page.
I agree it's not hard at all once you get used to it. But the vast majority of people are NOT going to take the time to do so. It's not even that it's necessarily too difficult, it's that the average user is not going to put in the effort to figure it out if it's not intuitive.
Yes, you could sit down and teach someone how to use a website, but most users are not going to have someone doing that for them or be interested in having someone do that for them.
the difficulty is a feature
if they are legitimately too slow-in-the-minds to work out how lemmy works, then i dont want them here
Just what I was thinking. I mean, yes, it means there will be less people overall, but I think that's a good thing. It reminds me of old school forums where it was a smaller crowd and you'd actually get to know repeat posters over time. A bonus of less people means there should be more quality posts and discussion instead of just repeat questions/posts, etc.
Reddit was just getting too darn big with too much "noise".
BTW, this is my first comment post. It already seems quieter and calmer here.