Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoWouldn’t the UK potential new joiners register on feddit.uk anyway?
Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoWouldn’t the UK potential new joiners register on feddit.uk anyway?
Quicky@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Speculatively, but it would assume prior research, which many people simply won’t do. If a de-facto app (say Voyager on iOS) offers a default option that’s unavailable for a selection of its potential users, it’s another hurdle within onboarding that is already the biggest barrier to entry. If we want to grow as a platform (more users equals more content), putting up a default wall saying “your kind aren’t welcome” to entire countries seems obtuse.
Yes, those potential new UK users can get around it by picking another instance, but the question is how many will give up if they can’t get over the first hurdle.
The suggestion of changing the default instance by region, where those instances prohibit specific regions seems logical enough to me.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Which instance would you use instead of lemmy.zip?
From another post
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391?scrollToComments=t…
lemmyverse.net/?order=active_month
There’s a reason lemm.ee was the previous default instance.
Quicky@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haha don’t put it on me, I’m merely a consumer!
You’ve already suggested feddit.uk, why not use that for UK Voyager installs? Anything that isn’t an instance that they can’t actually use would be good.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I was trying to show that it’s easier said than done.
Same for the region choice, we all learned that Lemm.ee was closing 24 hours ago. The Voyager dev made the best choice with the small timeframe, he’ll probably revisit down the line.