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

I’ve suggested something similar before and got shur down. Just sort people into a Lemmy server either based off their interests or location

“Nationality France = Lemmy France Server”

“What are your interests? Gaming = Gaming Lemmy server”

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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Shut down as in someone shut down the website or people telling you that the idea is trash?

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- UrukGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Shut down as in ‘that’s a terrible idea for the fediverse’
  
  If it was public & randomly sorted to the fediverse Lemmy servers, I don’t see how it would be an issue
  
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  - howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Do you know why? It sounds to me like a great addition to the fediverse.
    
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    Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    @JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml commented above with a good experience of why it’s a crappy idea (I was thinking a randomzier would be good too.
    
    I just clicked the first option it showed, which (for me) was a non-English instance. The second option was that LGBT-focused instance that defederated with lemmy.world a few months ago. Of course I didn’t know anything about either community so I just picked randomly.
    
    I could see that happening a lot. I’ve messed with other randomizing systems and sometimes you forget how many niche or non matching picks can pop up when you really look at it. Even a 10% match with language barriers wouldn’t be good for a reliable system of placement.
    
    I also don’t like the “what harry potter house” do you belong to quiz stuff or anything that asks to crawl or input your data (no thank you). Definitely more complicated than I thought.
    
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