Yay! More centralisation!

Stop making good the enemy of perfect!

The cold truth is that to onboard people in greater numbers you need a default instance recommendation. You just do. You absolutely cannot ask potential new users (many of which will - hopefully - be casual and not so tech savvy) to sit down and undertake a multi hour research project into finding an appropriate small instance for them. You cannot reasonably expect people to look into uptime, funding and defederation lists to make an informed decision about where to register. You just need them through the door and posting and commenting and voting.

Making a new account somewhere else is super easy and painless once they're already here. We just need to get them here.

I'm just going to post this old post again.

or for the lazy

I don't see the issue with recommending a generic instance, if your intend is to convert the generic user. It certainly is a better experience than saying 'ok, so choose what you like from this list of instances' and they don't even know the implications or what that means.

The overcomplication of Lemmy is an issue, and this behavior tries to avoid that.

Honestly, if they're on reddit, they're probably libs and that's the closest to a default instamce. They complain enough about the leftist instances that the leftist adjecent folks will find their way eventually. It's fine.

a generic instance is what most users need to actually make the move, if they like it or understand it better later they might choose a different insurance later, if not who cares they can still interact with others.

Well it is lemmy.world, so it makes sense that it should contain everyone in the world /j

lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post. vpn is basic internet hygiene. do not go to lemmy.world if you care about that, our you will not be able to post.

you can join any federated instance instead.

one day later edit: i took my information from this post of a lemmy.world admin: https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632

I was made aware that users are able to post on lemmy.world while using a vpn. maybe their stance has changed?

aside from that, try to avoid joining the biggest instance and join smaller, federated instances instead. this reduces load and avoids centralization.

What do you want them to do? Select an instance at random, to spread them out?

Makes sense.

Lemmy.world is filled with censorship and genocide apologists. It’s basically an exact clone of Reddit’s culture of smug libs that look down their noses at other poor people while working tirelessly against their own best interest by supporting corrupt oligarchs that weaponize identity politics as a highly effective dog whistle.

"Lemmy is great, you can choose whatever instance you want! But fuck you if you choose that one."

I will never understand why people want to go from reddit to a place that's just as shitty as reddit in all the same ways

I was forced to go to Lemmy after the post-inauguration bloodbath, but Ive liked it a lot, more than Reddit in many ways. I was getting really tired of the bots, puns, Russian Propganda, novelty accounts, TROLLS, etc.

OTOH, I feel like I can speak much more freely on Lemmy. Even before I got permabanned, Reddits Free Speech mission had become non-existent.

The downside of Lemmy is that some of my favorite subs don't have an equivalent on Lemmy. For instance, the Reddit guitar subs are very active, but the few Lemmy guitar forums are nearly empty, with posts that are days, weeks, months, and even years, apart. I tried Googling "Lemmy Guitar" for ideas, and literally every link was about Motorhead.

So I welcome more quality Reddit immigrants, as long as all the Trolls stay over there.

It's literally just the Lemmy arm of Reddit. Same rules, same mods, same centrist users.

Part of the problem is that there isn't a really good onboarding process that doesn't involve getting people to join smaller instances.

Based on dev comments, they seem happy with Lemmy staying small, so there isn't an organization pushing for an equal distribution of new members.

I registered with blahaj first but I couldn't. Log in after a couple of months and never found a solution.

I came to Lemmy on my own but felt forced I to .World.

It's one of the largest and one of the easiest to join. I'm certainly not going to suggest Pawb for 90% of people unless I know they are a furry, and I would never recommend .ml. SJW would be second, and I might suggest db0 if it doesn't make you fill out an essay to join (I haven't made an account there).

First post on Lemmy! and oh my word… never seen such an eclectic mix of flavours of people, positions and politics in a long time.

This decentralised thing could actually be a good thing: pulls people away from bubbles and echo chambers!

Just remember to play nice :)

As long as they have more than two brain cells to click together. If they can't get past the tiny technical barrier to entry then they can go somewhere else.

It's the worst. I wish people would stop doing that.

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.world as far as I can tell, is a fairly good starting point for reddit refugees (like myself). I'm still annoyed by the lack of multis, so in order to keep my interests organized I have to have multiple accounts, but I'm otherwise fairly happy with it. Might migrate to another instance purely to get away from the .world vs .ml drama, and I'd encourage other reddit refugees to also migrate instances after becoming familiar with how lemmy works.

Lemmy.ml/Lemmygrad.ml/Hexbear = Tankies

Lemmy.world = Wackos

Sh.itjust.works = Jerks