Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy

• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just recommend a website for them to join.

  But the crux is which one do you recommend? We don’t want to send everyone to the same instance otherwise it’ll end up becoming dominant (see Lemmy World).

  Ideally we shouldn’t need to go through this motion of trying to work out which instance to choose or recommend one for them, they should be able to do that themselves after getting their feet wet.

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  • Endmaker@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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  • SharpieThunderflare@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Being already established, you have a few advantages over the newbies. You know about how a few different instances federate and work, and you know whether or not you like your instance.

    Recommend your instance. Or if you wouldn’t, whether because it’s niche or doesn’t work well in general, recommend a generic instance, even if it is .world, because it will probably work and give a good experience.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But the crux is which one do you recommend?

    “Lemmy has 47k monthly active users

    • discuss.online if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
    • sopuli.xyz if you want a server located in the EU
    • vger.app/settings/install if you want an app

    Feel free if you have any questions”

    For the rationale: feddit.uk/post/23882306

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  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think a good solution would be to randomly send people to one of the top 5 instances that aren’t very political (What ever that might be)

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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      According to fedidb.org/software/lemmy, the top 5 (where top 5 is defined by user count) are:

      • lemmy.world
      • lemm.ee
      • sh.itjust.works
      • hexbear
      • lemmy.dbzer0

      After there’s:

      • beehaw
      • lemmygrad
      • programming.dev
      • lemmy.ca

      Lemmy.world is pretty safe and generic, but it’s already huge (173k users vs 33k of lemm.ee). Lemm.ee is also a safe bet. Hexbear is totally out of question dbzer0 is great, but it leans heavily in a political direction

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lemm.ee is also a safe bet.

        Federated with hexbear and lemmygrad

        feddit.uk/post/23882306

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