“Fairly simply once you get the hang of it” isn’t good enough. If you want people to use your service, you make it idiot proof.

I agree with this in the general sense that essentially gatekeeping by everything being a little too jank isn’t a good thing. It should be easier to get people to understand how lemmy works and helping people jump into the experience of scrolling through discussions and memes.

kbin works much better for that and I’ve been recommending it to people who feel overwhelmed by the initial lemmy experience. I used it myself when the information overload left me lost and confused.

It didn’t take me long to move back here and learn to navigate and enjoy the lemmy experience though!