I told somebody I know who knew about Reddit’s API changes about Lemmy. He has a master’s degree in Computer Science and works as a software engineer. But then, he told me that it’s too confusing to get into, even for someone like him. This is great feedback and I hope that these issues will be fixed in the coming months. [https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/957bd891-e0b2-4056-b09b-71b80b3d3c94.png] [https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/c093063b-b793-44f2-96aa-368347aec676.png]
Judging from interactions I've had with new users the past week, the hard part for them seems less like finding communities on another instance but more figuring out how to actually get their instance to federate with the other instance's community. While it's not hard once you figure out that finding a community is as simple as searching for !community@instance.tld on the search page, it's definitely a bit unintuitive.
Judging from interactions I've had with new users the past week, the hard part for them seems less like finding communities on another instance but more figuring out how to actually get their instance to federate with the other instance's community. While it's not hard once you figure out that finding a community is as simple as searching for !community@instance.tld on the search page, it's definitely a bit unintuitive.