Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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If you mention Lemmy, point someone towards a specific instance so it's not so much of a shock. Then they can slowly learn about what it is.
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Read only instance would put them off too. The best solution, IMO:
- create a pool of instances that will act as the default ones
- when creating an account, create it on one of the instances, redirect the user there
- add an option to migrate an account to a different instance in case the user wants to choose a different one after a month or so
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After that my premium expires. Also I'm suspend indefinitely.
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Yeah you can browse an instance without being logged in, so that would be possible.
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We don't want to send everyone to the same instance otherwise it'll end up becoming dominant (see Lemmy World)
From what I've learnt in network science, I've got bad news for you: real-world networks tend to follow power-law distributions.
Lemmy, being a social network, is unlikely to be an exception. Some instances are going to become hubs and the rest would be peripheral.
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And? We want all kinds of people on Lemmy not just 'skilled' people
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Sadly you're probably right. It would be nice if there were some load balancing mechanism where restrigrations could be shut for the larger instances where it recognises that it's grown much larger than the rest, and recommend altnerative instances.
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Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Ah, The Great Filter of Lemmy, yes.
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