A terrible corruption of a Windows XP computer. A barrage of viruses, Malware, Bonzi Buddy, Toolbars and terrible nu metal. The complete awful early 2000 experience.
I think that's fine. You should probably keep using Reddit, that is the direction they are going.
Edit: if you're using new.reddit.com nothing is going to change for you bud lol
I can say first hand I was confused on how to sign up. I tried joining lemmy.ml and wrote up an application which never got approved. After browsing for a few days I figured out I could sign up on any instance and found lemmy.ca, my people. lol. My application got approved very quickly there.
I doubt most people will be able to figure this out as it's not intuitive and perhaps give up and move on to somewhere else. :(
