People need to realize you can use alternatives

  • nattekrant@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    If the registration process just picked a random instance for you, maybe something nearby, and assured new users that they can visit communities and interact with users across instances, very few would pick the biggest instance.

    • _cnt0@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      That isn’t guaranteed, though. The other day I wanted to create a new community and was browsing instances on join-lemmy.org/instances for an instance that was compatible rulewise. The one I picked evidently wasn’t a good pick (burggit.moe). Trying to advertise my new community, I found out it was defederated from beehaw (and likely others) and got insulted as a pedophilia sympathizer …

      Randomly assigning new users to instances would make a substantial fraction of people very unhappy.

    • StringTheory@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I would be very sad if I was randomly assigned an instance in French (for example) because I don’t speak French.