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I feel like a much talked about criticism of getting started with Lemmy is that the 'average person' doesn't understand it. I see a lot of technical people, myself included, use words that the 'average person' shies away from. Mentioning concepts like servers and Fediverse requires some background knowledge. I propose we start using 'providers' instead of servers, as it helps understand the function of it instead of the implementation. There might be more words that could be confusing, so let's have a conversation about them. Are there any you recognize as being able to be simplified, or is this a non issue?

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[–] sanguinepar 3 points 1 year ago

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.