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Hey everyone, I'm honestly really liking Lemmy so far. Maybe that's because it feels so much like browsing reddit 10 years ago and I think it's safe to say many of us have migrated from the blackout. I'd been a Reddit user since 2010 so I've witnessed the slow decline over the years but popping here has really driven home how corporate it started to feel--less like a genuine hub of community and more like a manufactured product with low effort content and some genuine discussion/input peppered throughout.

That said, does anyone feel the idea of a federated platform might be confusing to some less network-savvy users? There's other successful multi-server platforms like Discord but somehow for me the idea of a 'chatroom' versus something more like a forum/board seems like it would make more sense to a less informed user. I could see hearing that posts are aggregating from other sites or being cross-visible confusing to individuals who understand web usage as, 'visit site--post to site--view content on site'.

Does that make sense? lol Anyways, loving the site so far--hope to see it grow!

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[โ€“] isdfoa@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My dumbass thought 'local' meant popular in my geo location and 'all' is worldwide when I first joined ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] c2h6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Not dumb! We're all new to this!

[โ€“] jugalator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think during design, they sometimes forget and use terminology that makes sense out of a federation perspective rather than newcomers. "Local" could as well have been named "This Server" and it would be much more clear.

[โ€“] nonresonant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same here but I was confused because I didn't give any location permissions, lt.