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Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook (www.youtube.com)

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This reminds me of Tom Scott's excellent video on electronic voting machines, where he mentioned that the system for counting votes needs to be easily understandable to the average person so that they can adequately trust it.

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[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Folks (and you 😁), I get you are trying to be helpful but you are missing the point.

I get that I can hit the button. It drives away people in general. People do not like filling out reports. Having to block, report, and moderate your own content is work. Users value having most of that done for them.