Why does anyone think Google would shut down Gmail? You’d have to be stupid to think that they would shut down the most used email service on earth, one that is deeply integrated into Google as an ecosystem.

I worked in a restaurant and received many Google assistant calls that sounded completely natural.

When I first got email, it was issued by my service provider. Easy. When I got my next email many years later, through Gmail, the sign up process was easy to understand and intuitive.

Having to decide between instances is a huge turn off for would be new users. It’s a weird concept and it even took me a while to understand it, and I’m pretty tech savvy. Lemmy will never take off like reddit until it’s more centralized.

As a new user, I can tell you what some of the big issues are. First, ease of use. Lemmy is not as user friendly or intuitive as something like reddit. Second, lemmy is a dumb name. It’s a stupid point, but shit like that counts.