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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SeaStar@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

People need to realize you can use alternatives

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[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Problem is that a) new users don’t know that they can join communities across servers, and b) it is intuitive use start with the servers that a lot of people like.

Instance browsing and onboarding is probably the biggest challenge to Lemmy’s growth. The current experience either scares new people away, or encourages them to congregate on a limited set of instances.

[-] mangel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It's also that lemmy.ml is the instance I've seen posted everywhere when it's brought up, so naturally people would just sign up there instead of finding somewhere else.

[-] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I applied to 3 instances when I decided to join and lemmy.ml was the only one that responded so there's that.

[-] nattekrant@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

If the registration process just picked a random instance for you, maybe something nearby, and assured new users that they can visit communities and interact with users across instances, very few would pick the biggest instance.

[-] _cnt0@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

That isn't guaranteed, though. The other day I wanted to create a new community and was browsing instances on join-lemmy.org/instances for an instance that was compatible rulewise. The one I picked evidently wasn't a good pick (burggit.moe). Trying to advertise my new community, I found out it was defederated from beehaw (and likely others) and got insulted as a pedophilia sympathizer ...

Randomly assigning new users to instances would make a substantial fraction of people very unhappy.

[-] goat@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago

How's it work if I get banned from one instance? Yet I can still comment in that instance I got banned from? No clue how that works

[-] Vlixz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just joining in, and what will happen if the instance you created your account on decides to stop running. Does your account just dissapear?

[-] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Yes. But it is easy as hell to set up on another instance or even throw up your own.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you get banned from your home instance, you're banned everywhere.

If you get banned on a different instance, you can no longer post/comment/vote in communities there but otherwise you're fine.

[-] goat@burggit.moe 0 points 1 year ago
[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Beehaw kind of seems like a problem child. Like, the first thing I saw about them is that they were de-federating.

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