or another way to ask it, what made fedi easier for you to adopt? I don’t think the answer is better ways of explaining how federation exactly works, because no matter how good of an analogy you can make, most users don’t care and just want to know how to get started
EDIT: I guess I’ll go first, for something like Mastodon I think encouraging people to use a client like pinafore.social or Tusky instead of going directly to the website of the instance would help stop people from confusing themselves by getting redirected between instances. Same for Lemmy as better clients start to pop up
@ruud@lemmy.world created a sticky post that is a work in progress, however I believe it is something that answers your question
https://lemmy.world/post/37906
One feature I’d really like is being able to click that link without being “logged out” as that link takes me to lemmy.world and my account is on lemmy.ca
I think little things like that turn away new users who get annoyed by all the “glitches” so to speak.
Clicking a link should first check if the link is to another lemmy instance, and if it is it should attempt to open that post while remaining in this instance.
I think if you use Lemmy (and mastodon and other fedi platforms) through a client you can avoid this issue. I use Tusky and Pinafore for mastodon, but haven’t found a good one yet for lemmy
The developer for Jerboa mentioned in a thread (sorry I don’t have the link on hand) that they are currently working on opening instance links within your current instance.
Currently it just pops up in an embedded browser, but I’m glad they’re actively resolving it!
Yeah not staying logged in as you navigate around the site is pretty crippling.