• Hangglide@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No. It not the UI. It is the pick a “Feterated Instance” stuff before you even know what it is. No one knows those words. It should just work for new users. Instances and federation should be presented later.

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      1 year ago

      There should be a simple signup that looks something like:

      [choose a username] @ [choose an instance]

      Where the first one is an input field and the second one is a drop down or search bar. People can pick whatever instance name piques their fancy to get started. Once they understand the fediverse better they can move to another server (hopefully migration will be built-in at some point).

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        1 year ago

        There should be a button that just takes you to the front page of a random instance chosen from a list of instances that are known to generally all be federated with each other. Not everyone wants to bother making account before even seeing the actual website.

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        1 year ago

        That’s what I did. Then lemmy.world got slow, I found a small nearby server with great local content, moved there (took days to subscribe the groups again). Then the server went offline, now back to lemmy.world, and I have no idea if the server will be ever back again.

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        That’s what I did. Then lemmy.world got slow, I found a small nearby server with great local content, moved there (took days to subscribe the groups again). Then the server went offline, now back to lemmy.world, and I have no idea if the server will be ever back again.

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      1 year ago

      I think better communication about what federation is would help. I keep seeing folks say it’s like email, but that assumes the average person understands how email works.

      We should start describing it as “like if Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News could see and comment on each other’s content”