Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse
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Some people are used to browse Reddit at work. Browsing a website with shit on it isn't ideal.
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https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391 (pinned on [email protected] ), nowadays I basically go with:
" Lemmy has 47k monthly active users
https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency) https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU https://vger.app/settings/install if you want an appFeel free if you have any questions"
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https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391 (pinned on [email protected] ), nowadays I basically go with:
" Lemmy has 47k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/settings/install if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
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[email protected] has plenty of reports from power tripping mods on popular instances, those instances are still the most used
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Why do we need to change what current users already like to attract some theoretical new user that might want a dumbed-down view? This is starting to sound like infinite-growth corpo speak!
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There's a lot of margin between 47k monthly active users and infinite growth
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I know I favour this, but I may be biased.
My main tip for picking an instance is go for a region or topic specific instance so your local feed is manageable and relevant.
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It's something I've raised with the other Admins and we may see if our users would be up for swapping the default frontend to one of the others.
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FYI, I added your initial post to this one https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391 as a reason why join-lemmy.org isn't a good recommendation
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Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction.
I'd rather join-lemmy (and join-fediverse) were smarter.
Have a series of questions (for join-fediverse add "what service do you want?"):
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Where are you?
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What languages do you speak?
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Select your hobbies from the list below:
And it then spits out 2 or 3 instances.
It's what I'd do if someone asked me directly for a recommendation and should be relatively easy to do.
As we say with someone posting a link to db0 on r/piracy, if you just say to people "this is the instance for you" and it seems relevant then they make the jump. I'm tempted to go to the main subs for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc and just post a link to the relevant instance.
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Be ready to get your post removed for self promotion, and yourself banned. That's what I noticed on most countries subs (except Australia I guess? [email protected] still thriving everyday)
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I'm going to disagree on this one, I've seem far too many comments, especially from LW users, along the lines of "I can't be bothered to change websites because I'm already settled in." Most people are attached to their posts and content and consider moving instance as "losing progress". And the bigger an instance is the harder it'll be to leave if they ever pull something seriously "power trippy" that could lock off content to some people, because there will be a large mass of communities and posts on that instance.
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Fair, maybe we can randomly select one of the top 10 to suggest as default.
️Idk the best solution, we can do AB testing if needed
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It might be ideal to randomly default one of the top 10 instances
The user can still choose to not go with the default, it might also spread out users more.
Currently I think people just looks whats fhe biggest, and join that. Thats basically what I did because it was overwhelming to pick
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I’m not debating terminology I just thought based on your comment that your mistakenly thought neoliberal meant liberal not new liberalism. It’s confusing they use the same root
I disagree. I mean LW is neoliberal in they see keeping the western gov status quo as good.
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thats very nice actually
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An anarchist instance having strict rules is quite ironic.
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True, but this also corporate America that needs to chase users to make the graph go up. New users will come or they won't, I think chasing them is a fool's errand.
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Spot on buddy. The web interface was rough AF until I got the app I’m using. People are going to give up easily. I’m tech savy and was an early adopter but gave up then with everything I was hearing I gave it a second shot.
