Yay! More centralisation!
Yay! More centralisation!
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A picture of the Ben Affleck Smoking meme, with the caption "Me seeing people on reddit telling other people to go to lemmy.world"
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.
What do you want them to do? Select an instance at random, to spread them out?
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.
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 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.
Makes sense.
Lemmy.world is filled with censorship and genocide apologists. Itâs basically an exact clone of Redditâs 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.
A lot of people start off on a major instance, then after finding and vibing with another instance, can move to that.
There's tons of tools and things that allow for transfer of subscriptions and everything else so changing instances isn't a big deal.
The important thing is to get them on Lemmy first.
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.
Ask Gemini to get a list of Lemmy instances, with user numbers, as well as weekly posts from the FediDB API and give a unique sequence of smileys per entry, and ultimately store it all in a JSON file.
Ask it then to create a slot machine UI that randomly selects an entry when the user pushes a button that looks like a lever, which if pressed will animate smileys rolling downwards in each slot until the slots align to the 3 smileys of the entry that has been chosen.
After the animation is complete you redirect the user to the platform directly.
It's the worst. I wish people would stop doing that.
