My experience with Lemmy feels like my experience with Linux. I’m a nerd at heart and have played with a thousand variants of Linux over the decades. But as much as Linux is sold as the next Windows/MacOS, it never gets to that level. Trying to get people to understand the quirks of Linux (and why they are “better”) has been an act in futility. Linux just isn’t user-friendly, no matter the variant.
I see so many posts of people trying to understand what Lemmy is, what an instance is, why usernames are not unique (unless you include the server name - like email), etc. I just see it all as a huge hurdle to overcoming Reddit.
I’d be thrilled to be wrong.
Yeah, as it is now, I wont be too quick to recommend it to all my friends. Even reddit wasn’t intuitive to most of my irl friends.
But it will improve, I’m sure, community discovery and subbing will become easier. And as long as the number of users, and activity, continues to steadily go up, lemmy will stick around.
As each type of community reaches critical mass, it will gain a home on lemmy.