For example, join-lemmy.org should do this, IMHO, without any technicality. Just transparently register to random server, with a curated cross-servers pre-selected list of subscriptions. Once users are distributed across servers, people will just recommend friends/family to join their own server, then the centralization of join-lemmy.org won’t become an issue. But I might be utopian.
I agree with you Dr. Jackson, it would feel kind of like signing up for an MMO, and they usually just suggest you a server to roll a new character on. Once they sign up people will start to understand the whole “having a home server” thing. Honestly doesn’t seem to different from a modern MMO that has cross server travel, etc.
I think the solution is a central registration which selects a random server from https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
For example, join-lemmy.org should do this, IMHO, without any technicality. Just transparently register to random server, with a curated cross-servers pre-selected list of subscriptions. Once users are distributed across servers, people will just recommend friends/family to join their own server, then the centralization of join-lemmy.org won’t become an issue. But I might be utopian.
I agree with you Dr. Jackson, it would feel kind of like signing up for an MMO, and they usually just suggest you a server to roll a new character on. Once they sign up people will start to understand the whole “having a home server” thing. Honestly doesn’t seem to different from a modern MMO that has cross server travel, etc.