I don’t think it will be. I’m involved in an active subreddit community that is resistent to moving. The people in it skew older, and while progressive, are kind of short on patience for any added stress or friction.
I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.
Then they could get comfortable with it and later move to a different instance if they want. (I started on Lemmy.world and ended up with infosec.pub being my main because world was censoring swear words and I fucking love swearwords)
And frankly, some of the reddit posts in the subreddit I’m thinking of would benefit from being ported over and searchable in their entirety with comments because they have resources and information that is quite evergreen.
I’m trying to talk them into coming over and building community here as well. So I’m not fully out of reddit yet either.
I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.
Isn’t that just linking a specific instance? You can link them directly to the community or the signup page, it’s just as simple as Bluesky at that point, don’t even tell them that other instances exist, don’t even say the name “Lemmy”
What would be confusing with something like
Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content, and install an app using https://vger.app/settings/install.
If you want more details, here is a more in-depth guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/
