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What is the dead-simple(est) way to onboard compeltely new people to Lemmy/Feddy (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29182109

Flowpath to have a Lemmy account for complete Newb

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they

I disagree. Most won't.

It's better to tell them about federation and decentralization before they join and start asking why there are duplicate communities with the same name (I've seen people asking similar questions about the absolute basics of federation here before in some communities). Not in detail, but enough to give them the basic idea.

And if they find it "difficult", then we already prevented someone from wasting storage space when they would leave the fediverse after a few days anyway.