this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I think it's a matter of habit.
I mean, all this new stuff is certainly confusing, overwhelming even, I still don't get how all these different instances can "talk" to each other like there were one, and several other things I don't get yet.
But I was very confused about reddit terminology as well when I joined reddit 8 years ago, then I learned and it became second language to me.
I believe this is the same, I believe we shouldn't try to understand everything in a day, just learn a bit at a time, ask questions, ask for help if we're stuck or feel frustrated, and in time it will become so natural that we'll stop thinking about it.
Agreed - so much of the internet in the last decade has been about platforms merging or simplifying or imitating others, so people have become much less use to having to learn new things.
Lemmy is like taking a step backwards to when everything wasn't quite so slickly tailored to friction-free user experience, and having to trust oneself to make the odd step into the unknown.
But that's ok, because that's how we learn. One step at a time.