Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 months agoRead only instance would put them off too. The best solution, IMO:
- create a pool of instances that will act as the default ones
- when creating an account, create it on one of the instances, redirect the user there
- add an option to migrate an account to a different instance in case the user wants to choose a different one after a month or so
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 months ago
By read-only, I mean they couldn’t create any communities. So essentially it would be an instance that has accounts but nothing else. Users would still be able to vote and comment on other commnities and subscribe. They could stay on it if they wanted to, but of course they wouldn’t be able to create any communities.
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 months ago
That doesn’t help at all, I’d say. Most people won’t ever create communities.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Like the other person said, 99% of users never create communities anyway. I don’t really know what this read-only instance is meant to solve.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It would solve the problem of choosing an instance, as the join Lemmy process would sign you up to that automatically rather than making them choose an instance.