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.

  • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    01 year ago

    Go to the magazines page, search for something like “gaming”

    The ones that end with an @ followed by a URL are on different servers. Have fun.

    • MxM111
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      11 year ago

      So, I searched for “philosophy”. It shows some magazines on other servers, but it does not show, for example, philosophy@lemmy.world. And I know it exists with more threads than here on kbin.social and comparable amount of subscribers. If I search on lemmy.world, then it does find philosophy@kbin.social, but shows just one subscriber.

      • VerifiablyMrWonka
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        11 year ago

        Yeah. That is sadly #JustFederationThings.

        In your case if you copy the full handle of the magazine from those results and use the actual search functionality kbin with go off and find it and then it will show up in those first results.