I could never be confused as someone whose good with tech. I have a job where knowing basic excel makes you the resident tech genius we all go to for help. I can confirm that I do find lemmy complicated.
It was intimidating to pick an instance (and everyone aggressively insisting it “doesn’t matter what instance you join because -long droning tech speech-” only made it worse).
This is numbered cause I can’t figure out how to do bullet points on mobile…that is how out of place on lemmy I am
I wish the default was all and not my local instance for my home screen. That makes it harder and more complicated for me to navigate around or see popular posts. Oh shit I think I just figured out how to do italics!!!
I’m mostly just here because I like the cozy community feeling. That’s enough for me to put up with stumbling around the site next to blind just clicking on stuff and hoping for the best (I accidently ended up scrolling a sub that was all in Germany yesterday, no idea how I got there)…but I don’t blame most non-tech people for not wanting to do that. To get most people you’d need to dumb the “fediverse” down to the point most current users would be furious and start talking about enshitification again.