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[rant] Why is this so hard for people? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can I just rant a little to you all?

I've tried numerous times to help people from reddit set up an account and get started on Kbin (and lemmy), but 4 out of 5 times people can't seem to grasp the concept of registering an account and starting to use this platform. Even breaking it down into 2 steps, with direct links... They get angry, and then ragequit their attempt in a huff saying how it's too fucking complicated and it will never take off because it's so hard.

Ok, I get that the fediverse is complicated if you think deeply about all the interconnectivity and federation etc, but there is no reason you even have to think about any of it to create an account and get started. Like, at all.

It reminds me so much of my 70/y old mother-in-law not immediately knowing how to work a tv remote and shoving it at me after 1.5 seconds saying "here, I can't figure this out". When in reality all she had to do was press the fucking big red button...

I'm just so frustrated with people's complete lack of ability to help themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I don't properly understand how all of this works.

But signing up to kbin on the weekend was just like signing up for anything else online.

And once I did, replying to posts - like this one - was more or less the same as replying on any other discussion forum.

So....I don't get it, what's so hard? Do you really need to understand the technical details underneath to start using this place?

That said, I would like to grasp this whole thing a little better. But I figured the best way to do that is to jump straight in and go from there! :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I don't get it, what's so hard?

One of the biggest obstacles are links to other instances. Imagine a post from lemmy.world appears on your kbin.social frontpage where someone says "Hey, go check out this cool community I found: lemmy.world/c/CoolCommunity". You click the link and suddenly you're on another instance where your kbin account doesn't work. It appears like you would need to create an account on lemmy.world in order to participate. What's actually true is that you need to change to URL to kbin.social/m/[email protected], then you can subscribe to the community and participate using your kbin account. This is something you need to understand in order to enjoy your time here. A solution for this needs to be implemented, like an option to automatically turn URLs from foreign instances into home instance URLs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's an interesting point, I hadn't tried doing that yet. Seems fairly fixable though. I guess all this stuff will start to get better soon.

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