Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.
Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.
But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?
People forget how hard reddit was to figure out. You had to lurk for so long just to post a comment.
yeah this. I just a talked today with a Gen Z guy who was still confused of what reddit actually is… now put on top all that federation, foss, kbin<->lemmy etc stuff…
I also tried explaining it and I was like “it’s kind of like email” and he had no idea what email was.