this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
13 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

33606 readers
384 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.

Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.

What can we do?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone gets signed up to that initially and those who want to transfer to another instance afterwards can.

That's the second big problem hidden in this model: account migration doesn't currently work (nor do I know of an ETA for feature release).

Not to mention the first problem: this heavily promotes centralization which is what caused this whole mess in the first place.

Absolute centralisation caused the mess. My suggestion is just initial centralisation. It lets people get active with the platform while they figure out the basics rather than paralysing them with options up front.