Very much agree with this, I think people really overcomplicate it.
“It’s like reddit, but community build and community run.”
And they you can just invite them to your instance
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I like it but I really think we spend too much time explaining the home instance. We should put a lot less emphasis on it because it’s stressful to people. Just invite them to join your home instance and they can change in the future if they want.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Remember this is an onboarding flow for an app. It has to capture the user and explain things well without losing their attention.
What I want to avoid is “hey, select an instance from this menu”. “Wtf is an instance?”
Voyager gets around this by defaulting to an instance (lemmy.ee I think) before you log in, but my plan was to have them select when they launch the app for the first time.
Serinus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Picking a default instance seems like the right approach.
Blaze@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Indeed, so just give them a link to an instance. Nowadays a give
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