Lazycog

It’s also about the barrier of entry. Discord has a barrier, but it is not high. The fact that this platform is their commercial product ensures that issues are minimal (well…). For non tech-savvy people and those who don’t have time / don’t want to put in time to troubleshoot and figure things out this is the reason they go for these commercial solutions.

Just my observations from trying to switch friends and family over to free open source alternatives. It was a huge hassle to even get people to try out and move to signal, but signal has lowered the barrier quite a bit and now it’s stable (was not always as fast and stable as now).

The level of fear is tied to the version of joker that they post. If it’s the comic version, we’re all screwed.

If no one from your instance has subscribed to the community, it can not be found normally via search and the content wont be federated to your instance.

To be the first to connect your instance to that specific community: type the real url (https://kbin.social/m/functionalprint) into the search with search setting set to “All” and you should find that community. Then just subscribe and wait for your instance to start federating with that community and you should be able to participate.

Once you have done this others in your instance should see the community listed and can instantly jump in.

Edit: I’ve explaned this here with a picture.