The documentation explaining how fediverse works is so bad. It's so long and convoluted anyone new just can't be bothered reading it.
Other servers are snappier than lemmy.ml
Hello from lemmy.world! Don't come here, I think it's starting to get overloaded too. Lemmy.one looks like it may be in a good "growing but not snowballing yet" position, go over there and get that ball rolling.
Problem is that a) new users don’t know that they can join communities across servers, and b) it is intuitive use start with the servers that a lot of people like.
Instance browsing and onboarding is probably the biggest challenge to Lemmy’s growth. The current experience either scares new people away, or encourages them to congregate on a limited set of instances.
Hello from beehaw.org!
Well, hello from feddit.de! Since I'm a german user I thought it'd be only logical to register on a german instance. While new registrations are semi-locked, the criteria for being let in are quite easy to pass and they are mostly in place to filter out spam. Got my account approved right on the next day
Solution: change servers
After reading the "we are full" notices and doing some research I was able to easily create an account on lemmy.ca increasing the represention for BC.
They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.
I use lemmy.world. they have an associated mastodon as well.
Same here, except I have no interest in Mastodon.
I guess many newcomers just go the easy way
Proud to be a sh.itjust.works user
I joined sopuli.xyz because they have a cute fuzzy animal in a hat as their logo.
