She says she’s open to it but doesn’t find it as intuitive. So there’s a chance.
To be fair, neither Reddit was intuitive when I first started using it.
Maybe it was because I came from a world of Fark/Slashdot/Newgrounds; but “website that is a list of things users submitted to it that may or may not interest me” was a pretty familiar format to me. Old Reddit was still my go-to until June 12th.
“Feed me full content as I scroll” is too annoying. It makes me watch and see things I have no interest in. It’s junk, it’s clutter. Sell me with a headline and a thumbnail sure, but let me decide from there, thanks.
She’s not wrong. Gonna be a long while before this place is accessible to “normies”. UX issues aside, it’s buggy and unstable. Late adopters have no tolerance for this stuff.
My wife is also a scab sticking to reddit. Unfortunately, a good reason for doing so is that a lot of the niche woman-oriented subs she’s on don’t exist in the fediverse yet.
That’s the problem, even if technically the platform is the worst option, it is a pain to try and relocate a community.
I had to do it with like 70 people from Google Hangouts to another service a few years back and it was crazy how hard just getting everyone into a basic service is. Any new or weird quirk will absolutely chase people back - especially if the original service is still working
My wife just saw this when trying lemmy for the first time
Mine is waiting till a few apps start to hit the App Store before she tries it. I think once a handful of the more polished apps start to make it out of their test flights, we’ll start to see another decent sized migration over here.
The Boost dev is working on a Boost app for Lemmy atm. I can’t wait to finally get the notification that it’s available for download.
Fortunately I don’t think you’ll have to wait too long. I’ve been using Memmy in Test Flight since really early builds and it’s extremely impressive how mature and feature rich this app has gotten. The last update (which are usually daily) made themes customizable to the point where I basically have the app looking like how I had Apollo customized. It’s close to being fully reviewed and approved for the App Store.
