I don’t know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.

Edit: running total including the commenter: 9 people

  • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    8 hours ago

    Any time I’ve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words “instance” or “federated.” I’ve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.

    • vatlark@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah it’s an annoying stumbling block. Blue Sky “fixed” that by only having one instance.

      It feels like there should be a sign up page that just gives users a default instance (randomly selected from the top 10 maybe), to avoid the problem.

      • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        Blue Sky “fixed” that by only having one instance.

        I suppose we could “fix” it in a similar way by inviting people to a specific instance instead of pointing them at join-lemmy.org.(Although that site has improved massively since the last time I saw it.)

        Don’t even mention instances or federation, just say “hey you should join me on <favorite instance URL>”.

        Once they are using it, that’s the first hurdle, and they’ll notice pretty quickly that there are other servers that all (mostly) talk to each other.