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you must be kidding. there is no reason to think about that?
to find communities/magazines you have to use some 3rd party tools (you may be lucky and see something in the "all" feed, but that is not guaranteed), then when you find it, you can't just click subscribe, you have to grab the url, go back to another tab where you are logged into your instance and subscribe by manually constructing the url, or pasting the url somewhere (maybe, haven't tried that way).
don't take me wrong, i am fan of open source, which is why i am here, but if you don't see how this is complicated for average non-tech-savy user, then i am not sure what to tell you.
Using 3rd party tools I don't understand, I just use the magazine search bar in Kbin itself. Searching for a term works just fine to get me to any magazines or communities I want to subscribe too, and I've found replacements for any subreddit I've cared to look for so far.
and does that search through lemmy communities as well? because lemmy search definitely doesn't return kbin results. and i am not even sure if it returns 100% of lemmy results, it is hard to verify that :D
It does! I've subscribed to tons of Lemmy communities like that. Lemmy's search does return Kbin results as well though, I just checked. I searched "News" from lemmy.world and found the Kbin.social News magazine I was looking for.
Just to check some more, I also tried searching for the Reddit Migration and Technology magazines and it found them both using only their names, no urls or @'s needed.
You should only need the url if you're the first person on an instance to subscribe to a community, after that it should be indexed for everyone.
it works. and if opened from there, it allows me to subscribe by clicking on subscribe... now i have no idea why i have been doing it so complicatedly. shame on me...
thank you.
It must be a different experience on lemmy. On kbin I only need to click on a post and the magazine/community is listed in the sidebar - I only need to click the subscribe button.
so i just found i have been doing that unnecessarily complicatedly.
I don't see how it's hard for a non-tech-savvy user to use. The actual usage is near-identical to reddit. Pretty much the only hurdle in that regard is trying to subscribe to magazines on other instances that haven't been synced yet. Other than that? It works the same as reddit. If you think kbin is too hard, how tf were you using reddit?
I work in tech and even for me it took a few minutes to grasp that kbin and lemmy instances could all communicate with each others. If you’re used to the centralized web then it might be foreign that kbin can read lemmy content etc. It’s like saying instagram can be used to access Twitter for a normal person.
But for now I don’t think the normal user has to be the priority. They will learn when they have to move to be able to access the content they are after
yeah you don't have to know about that to sign up and use the site so no issues.