Coelacanth

The thing to get across to people is that you don’t need to understand it to use it. Hell, that goes for most things. The average person has no idea how an internal combustion engine works but can drive a car just fine.

Search-Lemmy is under development for this.

Yeah, keeping the content flowing will be the most important thing, and it’s much less daunting than taking on moderator duties. Everyone on Kbin/Lemmy right now is basically an early adopter, so they might need to take more responsibility to keep momentum up. It’s too much to ask people who usually just read news on their niche subreddits to suddenly start up their own community here, but everyone can take one step “up the ladder” so to speak, and we’re already seeing this to some extent I think. Lurkers trying their best to be commenters, commenters putting up their own posts and regular posters starting their own communities.

While I agree with everything you said, it did also serve a tangible purpose on some subreddits as a barrier-of-entry to prevent bots from posting OF spam or whatever or stop new troll accounts from being able to post.

Makes just about as much sense as communities being called “Magazines” and threads being called “Articles”. There is a lot to like about Kbin but also a lot that boggles my mind.

I do like a lot of things about Kbin, and visually it’s much better than unmodified Lemmy in a browser, but it also has its own share of problems, not least with intuitiveness. I don’t understand why communities are called Magazines, and the terminology of “Favorite”, “Reduce” and “Boost” are very confusing to me. Trying to make a new thread might lead you down a microblogging path instead since “Post” sounds more like a new thread than “Article” to a newcomer.

There also seems to be much slower sync between Kbin and various Lemmy instances compared to intra-sync between lemmy instances themselves. Kbin also doesn’t have an API (yet?), but a more tech savvy individual than me will have to say how big of a deal that is.

Both Sync and Boost have large and loyal userbases and will probably attract plenty of users to Lemmy, and good Third Party Apps might help with first impressions and onboarding for new users.

Ultimately though, content is king. I liked Kbin better when I first made my accounts, but then we had a Race Week in Formula 1 and the community here was dead while discussions were happening on Lemmy, and since the sync was slow so I ended up over there.