Random instances are problematic. As others have said you might end up on one of the weird instances. More likely though… you just end up on a dead instance, take one look at the “local” feed and think that’s all the content.
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Part of the issue (I feel a large part ) is that the learning curve is too steep to get on Lemmy
Now I’m not saying it’s hard at all; but it’s significantly higher than simply “go to a main page and create a user name and password”. Lemmy needs a sign up page that just random signs you up to an active instance (per the instances permission) and automatically subscribes you to the 50 most active instances to just get you started up.
Making a getting started page that’s as idiot proof as any .com would probably go a long ways into upping our numbers here.
fizzle@quokk.au 1 week ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I felt I was being pretty specific about “the most popular”. If the most popular instance is dead, we got problems.
fizzle@quokk.au 1 week ago
You said sign up to a random instance and subscribe to 50 most active instances. I assumed the second “instance” was a mistake because you dont subscribe to instances.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
all yea, new users are more likely to get confused that you can only sign up for 1 account per instace, and not 1-for all like with reddit, so they get fustrated because they couldnt understand why they made a lemmy account on world, and cant login in anorther.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
The random one can send you to places like hexbear.net (I’ve tried the randomizer, and I’m not joking it actually truly did pick that very instance for me). Have you ever visited that place? It’s like being sent to a leftist MAGA rally. If I was sent there, I’d nope out and never return to the Threadiverse again.
Another place the randomizer can send you is lemmy.ml. Have you seen all the posts calling for outright murder of people living in the Western world? Well, let’s just say that a mainstream non-technical normie user who is currently living in a Western world is not likely at all to feel terribly welcomed there.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Hexbear is nothing like a leftist MAGA rally. It’s more like a MAGA rally.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
i call it the mirror version of conservatives, they talk like right wingers, respond like them, post nonsense like them.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
Just as there are facts and then there are uh… ah… “alternative facts”, so too there is an Alt-Right, and they represent basically an Alt-Left.
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Or something, I have no fucking clue what is really going on over there. It does seem more like whatever they are, their beliefs are not genuine - as in they even troll themselves so hard that some of them forgot that they were doing it!?!
ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I’ve seen the same arguments against liberals here used against Bernie Sanders on Instagram. “Why aren’t you doing more about Palestine?”, “Why’d you let this happen?”, “why are you too powerless to influence policies?”. I know some bots follow a script. The only difference here is the framing.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I gotta say, Xi’s version is way more effective than Donald’s
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 week ago
even the banners and display they use its obviously very “pro-communist”