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I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by metic@lemmy.world to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

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[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For Lemmy, if nobody has subscribed to a community locally, you need to search https://instance.social/c/whatever to get [!whatever@instance.social](/c/whatever@instance.social). Once someone subscribes locally, searching [!whatever@instance.social](/c/whatever@instance.social) works.

It's pretty unintuitive, especially when Kbin lets you search @whatever@instance.social even if that community isn't on your instance yet.