The trickiest part will be having users pick an instance, but once past that hurdle, the federation aspect doesn’t need to be a complicating factor.
Yep, that’s the thing. When Mastodon was hot for a while, most complaints I saw were about people not getting that they can pick almost whichever instance and/or having trouble deciding because they didn’t fully understand that it usually matters very little.
Oh. I guess that’s why a few subs I submitted to some communities there have been pending for days now?
While I plan on using this platform for the forseeable future - I don’t have too high hopes.
I think it will probably go the way Mastodon is going. A few weeks of being “hot”, then dropping off until it’s pretty much business as usual, as it was before being the hot new thing. Don’t get me wrong, I want Lemmy to succeed and replace reddit, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.
I’m happy to be here. Lemmy seems like a good place so far. I’m not sure if it will take off in the long term (I think a lot of people don’t “get” the whole federated thing, just like with Mastodon), but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
For a time in the early 2000s I used IE via AvantBrowser. It had some cool features at the time! 😅