I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
I don’t understand how federation works and the different instances and how communities with in that regard. But otherwise I’m happy to leave Reddit and still have similar communities talking to my interest.
Copied from a response I made to someone else: If you think about it like Email, it’s exactly the same. Why we have multiple instances? Well why does the United States has multiple states with different laws and governments? That’s what federation is about. That is a big part of the freedom that the fediverse gives us to users and admins.