Be part of the solution, make it 😉.

Id like a filter for top of all time, but that’s honestly my only “complaint” im shocked at how developed this is, and the web app wefwef is a little too good lol

It's steadily getting better. Try looking at All instead of Local or Subscribed to see more

Same. Choose an instance, sign up. You don't really need to understand the federation stuff (although it helps understand the quirks).

One reason this happens if you made your account on a small instance is that your instance just isn’t federating with very many communities. If you’re the first from your instance to subscribe to a community, try this: Use an explorer like lemmyverse.net to find new communities, copy the url into your home instance’s search field, and it should appear in the results after a few seconds or a refresh. Click the search result and subscribe from there. From then on, that instance will populate everyone’s ‘All’ tab on your home instance with posts from that community, and ‘Subscribed’ if you remain subscribed

Time to post some cat pictures!

I think people get some degree of choice paralysis as well. It's hard to pick which instance to join, and I worried about what I might miss out on. I ended up making accounts on a few and messed around until I settled on Lemmy.world. I could see this being a barrier for entry and forcing some people to just stick with the easy road, Plebbit.

It's a Stockholm syndrome kind of thing. They've been under the control of social media companies so long they've gotten to like it. It's scary to leave that control.

I have choices? No, that doesn't make any sense!

99% of us don't give a shit about federation. Just give me the memes!

After a few days you won’t even remember that there are different servers. It will feel like one.

That's what I keep saying. Stop trying to explain it. Just have them sign up and start consuming content. They'll get the basics by osmosis eventually

I think the larger issue is people won't take three minutes to read some basic instructions and background. They want to be spoon feed info and told what buttons to click.

I'm having issue figuring out how it works interacting from one side to other. I know lemmy.world can interact with mastodon instance via whatever activity pubsub thing they have, but for instance, can I log into the mastodon app with my lemmyworld account? I know I can post there somehow, but all the web mentions of it are like, pasting the url links in proper order like I'm in the pre-dial-up age or something.

A much more cohesive unification is needed.

What an incredible actor he is. Everyone on the show is great, but he is really, really good.

Umbrella Academy

You're on lemmy.ca, I'm not, but I can still see and reply to your comment

To add to that we're commenting on a post from a third instance neither one of us are on.

Imagine if [Thing™] was like email, that's federation. Different servers with their own rules that all connect with each other to provide the same service

Instances are a bit like usenet servers. Simple. 😉