I like what Isopod did, linking them directly to a instance.
The only way to catch the average joe is to hold their hand and get them to content as quickly as possible. While linking them to the largest instances may not be the healthiest for decentralization, it’s going to give newcomers the best experience.
A lot of redditors, I’d even say the majority now-a-days, use the app. While a lot of the Lemmy apps are great. I wish there was one that guided you through the entire signup process.
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Yes, ablism is a recurring issue I encounter every day.
Isopod here.
Sorry about linking .world… I panicked…
We really need to stop recommending LW.
100%, but I’d rather they join any instance, than none at all.
How does alexandrite make it easier to find stuff? And what other benefits does it have? I thought it was just a visual skin.
Considering how many instances defederate and how their users hate each other, in reality it’s not good advice to just pick any instance without learning about it 1st.
From the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy), there are 3 instances that are defederated or defederate a lot
- hexbear
- lemmygrad
- beehaw
All the other instances still federate each other.
It’s an excuse to not try something new. The real problem for the majority of them is that it’s a new platform that isn’t Reddit. That’s it. Finding communities people hang out in here isn’t a problem, they just aren’t familiar with the platform like they are on Reddit and don’t want to so they make up the excuse that it’s “complicated” and try and find ways to back it up, like thinking too hard about servers.
Really it has nothing to do with servers or the federated model at all, and has everything to do with aversion to new stuff and new places they don’t know as well yet.
They’re thinking too hard about it.
You register in server A. The community is in server B. Server A and B send info back and forth. That’s it.
Proposal: what if we [older users] made a FAQ?
Proposal: what if we [older users] made a FAQ?
Isn’t there one already on [email protected] ?
Do you mean this one?
If yes: that FAQ is a good start, but it’s mostly help for people already registered. I was thinking on something to clarify how Lemmy works for people who are considering to register on it. Stuff like:
- What is federation and why should I care?
- Decentrawhat?
- [as in the OP] where do we meet?
- How do I contact people in different servers?
- waah tankies pls fix
- etc.
If there’s something already in this direction we could/should advertise it a bit more, and if it doesn’t I’m seriously considering to start it.
I think “Lemmy Federate” fixed the main problem small instances have (Not federating as much communities as the big ones), at least for those instances that have it enabled. Why do you think the biggest instances give the best experience?
I can agree with the last part tho, would be cool if there was an app that would do that
Stability, support, features, discoverability maybe? You’re right there isn’t much of a difference now. Thinking through it, I could probably retract that statement.
Me trying repeatedly to click the links in the screenshot
