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Talk about choosing "a community", not "a server" (lemmy.pt)
submitted 2 days ago by Ninguem@lemmy.pt to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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It stroke me that saying things like "First, you have to choose a comunity to join the fediverse" might be a better way to ease onboarding nwecommers than "First, you have to choose a server".

Although the latter might be technically more accurate, the former is what people might

  • understand better;
  • ends up being what they're really doing;
  • frighten them less;
  • reinforce the "community" contribution aspect;
  • lead them to better understand the federated aspect as they realize that communities are not isolated and can talk to eachother.

What do you think?

"Let me know in the comments bellow..." - just kidding!

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[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are right. We get lost in the technicalities and forget how difficult it is for non technical users to understand the technology.

Speaking about community and the "Benefits" would be better for everyone.

A "community" is identified by a romaine name. And communities still speak to other compatible communities.

At work, seeing how the marketing team keeps changing wordings to fond the one with better conversion rate, I find what we do here is just bare bones.

[–] Ninguem@lemmy.pt 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's what I was thinking about.

I have to acknowledge the point @otter@lemmy.ca makes about there being a collision with the term "community" in the threadiverse perspective. Maybe "home" or even "tribe" or "people" would be a better fit. But I still do think that "community" encompasses the feeling best, and that collision will be promptly resolved once the user understands what communities really are on that narrower scope.

That's maybe a compromise we will (have to | want to) make.

Once again - that's my feeling, but I could be wrong.

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

Community and sub-community.