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I like what Isopod did, linking them directly to a instance.

The only way to catch the average joe is to hold their hand and get them to content as quickly as possible. While linking them to the largest instances may not be the healthiest for decentralization, it's going to give newcomers the best experience.

A lot of redditors, I'd even say the majority now-a-days, use the app. While a lot of the Lemmy apps are great. I wish there was one that guided you through the entire signup process.

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[–] gon@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isopod here.

Sorry about linking .world... I panicked...

[–] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

No, you're beautiful.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

No worries !

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think "Lemmy Federate" fixed the main problem small instances have (Not federating as much communities as the big ones), at least for those instances that have it enabled. Why do you think the biggest instances give the best experience?

I can agree with the last part tho, would be cool if there was an app that would do that

[–] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Stability, support, features, discoverability maybe? You're right there isn't much of a difference now. Thinking through it, I could probably retract that statement.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is this website? Cool profile picture, by the way.

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. This website is a bot, that federates communities from remote instances, that are not yet federated, you can read the description:

Communities on threadiverse are not federated by default.

When you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. To make it accessible to other instances, at least one user from each remote instance must follow it.

This tool automates this process by following your community from all remote instances until it gains at least one real-user follower.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We really need to stop recommending LW.

[–] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100%, but I'd rather they join any instance, than none at all.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Use this one based on this list depending on the context of the conversation:

🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭Germany, Austria and Swizterland: https://feddit.org/signup

🇫🇷France: https://jlai.lu/signup

🇬🇧UK: https://feddit.uk/signup

🇳🇱Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/signup

🇩🇰Denmark: https://feddit.dk/signup

🇮🇹Italy: https://feddit.it/signup

🇸🇪Sweden: https://feddit.nu/signup

🇫🇮Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/

🇵🇹Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/signup

🇧🇬Bulguria: https://feddit.bg/signup

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me trying repeatedly to click the links in the screenshot

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

Nice profile picture!

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's an excuse to not try something new. The real problem for the majority of them is that it's a new platform that isn't Reddit. That's it. Finding communities people hang out in here isn't a problem, they just aren't familiar with the platform like they are on Reddit and don't want to so they make up the excuse that it's "complicated" and try and find ways to back it up, like thinking too hard about servers.

Really it has nothing to do with servers or the federated model at all, and has everything to do with aversion to new stuff and new places they don't know as well yet.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

Nah I get it, back in the day we used to say "lurk moar" meaning you should be careful not to just barge into something and look foolish.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

(1) go to https://lemm.ee/
(2) look around. Try changing "Active" to "Scaled".
(3) if you like it, click "sign up"

[–] highduc@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering how many instances defederate and how their users hate each other, in reality it's not good advice to just pick any instance without learning about it 1st.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

From the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy), there are 3 instances that are defederated or defederate a lot

  • hexbear
  • lemmygrad
  • beehaw

All the other instances still federate each other.

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does alexandrite make it easier to find stuff? And what other benefits does it have? I thought it was just a visual skin.

[–] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

It's slightly cleaner than the default UI. I'm not a huge fan of the style. Photon is amazing though, I hope it gets adopted as the default UI eventually. Just a few things to iron out and it'd be the perfect recommendation. Check out phtn.app, I've customized it some on lemmyusa.com as well.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, ablism is a recurring issue I encounter every day.