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As much as Facebook sucks, these things will never replace it.

Just clicking through them, it’s apparent it suffers from the same problem lemmy has. You have to read things and follow instructions and then choose an instance…

Yeah, you lost everyone at the first step of having to follow instructions. People just want a Sign Up button, and that’s it. That’s the only step they’re willing to go through.

If, after clicking Sign up, they then have to figure out which instance (whatever that is) they have to choose, they’ll just quit right there.

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5 points

As much as Facebook sucks these things will never replace it.

Here we go again with the inaccurate fortune telling. Things can change, the code, apps and instances can improve.

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12 points

I hope they do and replace Facebook. But in their current iteration, they won’t. That’s all I’m saying.

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4 points

Thats why it’s important to avoid using the term “never”

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21 points

Such projects desperately need some professional UX/UI people involved. They always feel like they’re designed by back-end devs.

I also can’t imagine there being any difference to the instances as the concept of “local” doesn’t really make sense like it does with Lemmy. Maybe they should obfuscate the instance selection and the sign up process just puts you onto a random instance or one that’s best suited by geographical location.

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7 points

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

Feel free if you have any questions"

People need to create a similar message for Friendica

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5 points

I should make the little Friendica guide!

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4 points

That would definitely be welcome!

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1 point

The intersection of regular Facebook users and people who care about enough, or are willing to make the effort to switch is also likely quite small.

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