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[-] luffyuk@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been trying to hammer this point home.

I wish devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for the fediverse with an option to click "advanced sign-up" if you choose to do so.

The easy mode would just automatically assign an instance based upon some algorithm.

[-] Noodlez@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Rengoku@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Well, like asking users what their preferences are and select the servers based on the criteria users have chosen?

[-] Noodlez@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Hmm actually yeah this is a good idea, but the problem is that there's so many servers that I feel that after choosing criteria there'd still be a bunch of servers in the list and the problem remains, right? Just bouncing ideas. I quite like this idea though.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Then the algo recommends the one with the lowest load and hides the others behind a ... icon or something.

[-] Noodlez@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Mm this could be a problem because server load is too unpredictable. I would actually say just randomize the list, so that it kinda does its own "load balancing" by incentivizing to pick whatever random top one it selected?

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, whatever metric. Could also use a mix of number of users, some form of reputation measurement, uptime, etc.

I mostly meant that the system should pick a "best server" and recommend that. Smarter people than me can come up with the best metric.

But swamping the user with >100 servers to pick from is counterproductive.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I wish the devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for creating a web site. The web will never catch on with all this complicated stuff.

[-] EricHill78@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I like the fact that there is some difficulty in the sign up. I think it brings a better quality of people to the Fediverse.

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