• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    Encouraging everyone onto a single instance kinda defeats the purpose, and I feel it’s not as much of an issue with the new join-lemmy.com redesign, which recommends an instance based on your interests.

    I wrote up this post for anyone to reference to help onboard people to lemmy.

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        If everyone dogpiles into a single generic instance, it could push that instance into unsustainable territory financially (especially with a mass exodus), unless the user base is willing to donate to support the instance. Spreading the load out over many instances would ease the load on any one server admin.

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            I feel like the local community aspect of small and medium sized instances is a pretty big plus of lemmy. I can click ‘local’ and get a nice view of what my particular community is doing at the moment, which happens to be things I’m interested in.

            Is it truly that off-putting to new users to pick a single category that interests them, then their language, then just pick one of the suggested instances at random? There’s even a ‘general’ category they can pick if they simply cannot decide on any other interest.

            Every other social media site I’ve signed up to, including reddit, has made me select from a list of interests before letting me use the site so they can populate my feed with related things, presumably to enhance engagement and stop me from growing disinterested too quickly.