The biggest F U you get while signing up on lemmy is choosing a instance and I know this process acts as a filter in itself, clearing the randoms and normies. But if lemmy instance is assigned randomly, it is like hitting two birds with one stone. it solves discouragement you get when signing up but also distributes the load on different servers. the only downside I see with this is if the instance is closed.
Edit: I know there are a lot of variables and dependencies that I didn’t think of earlier. But I just wanted to imagine a welcome page of lemmy with simple, and as less steps as possible in the sign up process.
Again… Are you people ignoring my work on purpose?
- Sign up to https://fediverser.network
- select “Find an instance”
- answer simple questions (interests, languages)
- get an instance recommendation
I know that the UX needs to improve, but it’s super frustrating to see people talking about things like they are a completely novel concept.
It’s not ignoring if we don’t know it even exists!
I know this process acts as a filter in itself, clearing the randoms and normies.
This could be retained by having instances opt into/out of random allocation of new users.
Instead of having it be completely random, I am thinking of a site similar to sub.rehab.
Instances that are open to public signup would register on the site, and give updated states on how many users they have along with a brief description of what they are for.
Users can decide roughly what size instance they’d like to join and view a list of matches. We could add a “I’m Feeling Lucky” button that picks a random one out from the list.
