Could federation be a turn-off for more 'mainstream' users?

drubbis@lemmy.world to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 159 points –

Hey everyone, I'm honestly really liking Lemmy so far. Maybe that's because it feels so much like browsing reddit 10 years ago and I think it's safe to say many of us have migrated from the blackout. I'd been a Reddit user since 2010 so I've witnessed the slow decline over the years but popping here has really driven home how corporate it started to feel--less like a genuine hub of community and more like a manufactured product with low effort content and some genuine discussion/input peppered throughout.

That said, does anyone feel the idea of a federated platform might be confusing to some less network-savvy users? There's other successful multi-server platforms like Discord but somehow for me the idea of a 'chatroom' versus something more like a forum/board seems like it would make more sense to a less informed user. I could see hearing that posts are aggregating from other sites or being cross-visible confusing to individuals who understand web usage as, 'visit site--post to site--view content on site'.

Does that make sense? lol Anyways, loving the site so far--hope to see it grow!

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What do you mean one is defederated from the other? I'm on lemmy.world and can see all beehaw communities just fine.

I'm new to this as well, but I believe you'll find that you can see their posts, but you won't be able to contribute to them, and they won't see what is posted to either of those instances.