She’s not wrong. Gonna be a long while before this place is accessible to “normies”. UX issues aside, it’s buggy and unstable. Late adopters have no tolerance for this stuff.
My wife is also a scab sticking to reddit. Unfortunately, a good reason for doing so is that a lot of the niche woman-oriented subs she's on don't exist in the fediverse yet.
That's the problem, even if technically the platform is the worst option, it is a pain to try and relocate a community.
I had to do it with like 70 people from Google Hangouts to another service a few years back and it was crazy how hard just getting everyone into a basic service is. Any new or weird quirk will absolutely chase people back - especially if the original service is still working
Mine is waiting till a few apps start to hit the App Store before she tries it. I think once a handful of the more polished apps start to make it out of their test flights, we’ll start to see another decent sized migration over here.
Fortunately I don’t think you’ll have to wait too long. I’ve been using Memmy in Test Flight since really early builds and it’s extremely impressive how mature and feature rich this app has gotten. The last update (which are usually daily) made themes customizable to the point where I basically have the app looking like how I had Apollo customized. It’s close to being fully reviewed and approved for the App Store.
At the moment, she's only signed up on our self hosted instance and installed Jerboa. Getting her to try setting up an app is the first part of the battle.
We're on Android, so I'm currently on Jerboa and trying to get her to try it. But she always uses the mobile web site and opens 10,000 tabs to browse one at a time.
Basically she wants a client with a reading list feature, I think.
Could always try wefwef - I’ve been using the web app and it’s lovely! You just go to wefwef.app to access it, and there’s a place in settings where it walks you through how to set up a Home Screen icon so it works like a regular app. It’s very similar to Apollo as well :)
Hope you & your partner have fun with Lemmy! I am so far, trying to convince my other half to join up as well, haha 😛