Then the technology behind that extention needs to be built into Lemmy itself.

I get how this concept works now, but I keep saying that if Lemmy wants to grow it needs to be idiot inviting. The kind of place where you don’t need to think. The kind of place where you don’t need to learn.

Because Lemmy growing means people who are not part of Lemmy, JOINING Lemmy. The thing is, I feel like techie linux users already know about Lemmy, and if they aren’t using it, it’s by choice. For whatever reason. But the type of people who choose to use Linux are a tiny tiny slice of society.

But then you look to the rest of the world. And guess what. We’re all idiots out here. My dad who’s 80 years old still calls his Windows XP machine “that new fangled crap”. He USES Windows XP, but only because his Windows 3.1 machine died in 2005, and radioshack didn’t carry any new Windows 3.1 machines.

So now every week I get a call to help him with tech support. That call usually lasts like 12 minutes. First me argueing with him to reboot, and him refusing to reboot. Him getting angrier and angrier that I’m treating him like a child, and then a few minutes later the reboot finishes. In the past 8 years his problem was always solved by a reboot. He never tries rebooting before calling me.

He may be an extreme example, but these people are out there. Idiots are the bulk of society. If the idiots don’t know what is happening, they get frustrated and leave. That’s what this world is. Politics, religion, business, doesn’t matter who’s running what, it’s all supported by mass idiots.

So the choice is, do you want a small platform full of people capable of tying their shoes, or do you want a much larger more active platform full of idiots?

Thats the two ends of the spectrum.