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
Honestly, I think the Reddit blackout already is pretty good. If the closed subs already had an alternative community or instance to recommend that would also be great.
Synergy with Mastodon would be nice. As far as I know Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t completely linked but also not completely separate. Would be awesome if I could now also just follow people or hashtags there.
But all in all I think the current direction is great. The relevant projects seem to be getting a large influx of bug reports, feature requests and pull requests. We’ll probably be seeing huge changes in the coming months.
kbin is supposed to bring that. It kinda combines the both communities under one platform. Issue is that it’s still very unfinished and doesn’t have a good mobile app for example, but definitely something to look out for.