There’s nothing wrong with that particular demographic or anything, but it doesn’t feel like a win to me if the entire fediverse is just one big monoculture.

I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away? Is picking a server/federation too complicated? Or is it that they don’t see any content that they like?

Thoughts?

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[–] fututio_enjoyer@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (34 children)

Is picking a server/federation too complicated?

Yes.

Absolutely.

Literally the single biggest problem with fediverse adoption, brought up in every discussion about migrating to it. It will never replace centralized sites as long as it remains confusing and complicated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14t9t66/im_so_lost_is_there_an_easy_mode_to_the_fediverse/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LemmyMigration/comments/145epgc/looking_for_a_lemmy_website_try_lemmyworld/

[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

IMO things would work a lot more smoothly if the official website had a button that made an inversely weighted random selection from the top 20-50 "general purpose" instances and just sent you straight to their site or signup pages. To those who are unwilling to do extensive research, picking from the list they have is basically just choosing randomly anyway.

[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is not really inline with the philosophy of the main Lemmy devs. For this to happen, I think someone else would have to do the work of creating the random selection service. If it was popular enough, maybe they'd put a link on join-lemmy.org

[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Well, they already have a list if popular instances and even curate a few "recommended" instances on top of that. Giving the option to pick one randomly automatically doesn't seem like a stretch.

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