Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.

• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, there are some proposals to change this. I'd say it's fixable by technology to some degree. For example instead of a sign up page that directly signs someone up with the specific instance, we could have a more general Fediverse signup page. Maybe ask the new user a few questions what they envision their instance to be. If they're more aligned with this set of rules or the other. If they want "free speech" or a place with more moderation and less argumentative people. And then make some suggestions.

  Or instead of just signing them up with whatever instance they visited first, display a list of the current instance and 5 other random ones, shuffle them and make them deliberately click on one of them.

  That'd all help. Of course it can't be solved 100%. But we could at least make an effort to do something about it.

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  • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s literally what join-lemmy.org does. It asks 2 questions:

    • What theme they are interested in
    • What language they mainly use

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    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah. My proposal is to replace the "Sign up" entry on every single instance with a page like that. And move the actual sign up one level further down, so everyone needs to ckick through that process.

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      • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why? That’s really ineffective and just looks bad imo. That’s just a solution to people linking instances to join instead of leading people to join-lemmy.org.

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    • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know if offers options to people, but the majority of people don’t want options, they want a single website

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      • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A default option is bad imo. We want a decentralized platform. Distribution will keep the fediverse alive and well. Maybe a dynamic “default” option would be one solution. One that just changes the default option to a different somewhat known instance once the current default option reaches a certain user count. For this to work, you’d need to lead people to join-lemmy.org.

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