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.

  • atocci@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Using 3rd party tools I don’t understand, I just use the magazine search bar in Kbin itself. Searching for a term works just fine to get me to any magazines or communities I want to subscribe too, and I’ve found replacements for any subreddit I’ve cared to look for so far.

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
      0·
      2 years ago

      and does that search through lemmy communities as well? because lemmy search definitely doesn’t return kbin results. and i am not even sure if it returns 100% of lemmy results, it is hard to verify that :D

      • atocci@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        It does! I’ve subscribed to tons of Lemmy communities like that. Lemmy’s search does return Kbin results as well though, I just checked. I searched “News” from lemmy.world and found the Kbin.social News magazine I was looking for.

        Just to check some more, I also tried searching for the Reddit Migration and Technology magazines and it found them both using only their names, no urls or @'s needed.

        You should only need the url if you’re the first person on an instance to subscribe to a community, after that it should be indexed for everyone.

        • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 years ago

          it works. and if opened from there, it allows me to subscribe by clicking on subscribe… now i have no idea why i have been doing it so complicatedly. shame on me…

          thank you.