Whenever barrier to entry is discussed for lemmy, and reducing confusion for different servers is brought up, all of the isolationist comments come out of the woodwork.
Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?
We have a platform that seems to be working and slowly growing. Shouldnt we want good defaults in place to give the best possible experience with minimal user effort?
How else do you use a service but register? How are people supposed to help others that can’t even register? Didn’t they register for reddit? How can they register for reddit, but somehow fail at registering for lemmy?
It’s like telling people “if you want to join lemmy, go to the join lemmy tent”. People go to the “join lemmy” tent, see sign-up booths with “general”, “LGBTQ”, “French”, “German”, “Italian”, “art”, … and just turn around going “OMG THIS IS SO COMPLICATED!!!11!1!!!1!”. Seriously, you tell me, what the hell can be done? Are they not self-filtering at that point? Do they want the server to be picked for them? They just open joinlemmy.org and are redirected to a random server or something? What if it’s directed to hexbear?
Is having the freedom of choice really so complicated? I do honestly do not understand…
Perhaps if the differences between servers could be codified into one place then someone could create a “quiz” to help users narrow in on servers that are a good fit. Like this website: https://www.dumbphones.org/dumbphone-quiz
They already have a quiz on join-lemmy.org. they ask for interest and language, and filter instances based on that.
Granted the filtering could be better, as the top one recommended to me was sopulu.xyz. I like the Fins, but I can’t speak any of the language. I had to scroll down about 10 to get to lemmy.world
Yeah, I think those two definitely aren’t enough. Plus asking for an interest doesn’t make a lot of sense coming over from Reddit. Most people aren’t looking to join a server for only interest because they’re used to being in subreddits for various interests