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I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

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[–] 47 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

Anything new is scary
Reddit is complicated, they just forgot.

The digg users said reddit was ugly and they would never use such an ugly site.
I tried explaining reddit to a diehard forum user, why are all the replies out of order? why are upvotes changing the posting order? this is so complicated!

Don't explain, tell them where to start and how to start. then it explains itself.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I can't help but think that people who describe the Fediverse as complicated joined reddit after the redesign...

    Kbin is exactly like an old, stripped down version of old.reddit.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think this is also the cause of the squabbles.io Vs kbin/Lemmy split. Squabbles is like new Reddit, kbin is like old Reddit. And people like what they know

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    As a forum user, it was absolutely crazy to me when I first signed up on Reddit a decade ago that the replies would be out of order and sorted by popularity. But I grew to understand that it was a crowdsourcing effort in most ways and that the cream rises to the top. It was really quite good to get the information you needed out of the thread.

    Anything new is scary

    Agreed. Most people just want to settle into something comfortable.

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