I don’t know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.

Edit: running total including the commenter: 32.5 people

  • @vatlark@lemmy.worldOP
    5•6 months ago

    Yeah it’s an annoying stumbling block. Blue Sky “fixed” that by only having one instance.

    It feels like there should be a sign up page that just gives users a default instance (randomly selected from the top 10 maybe), to avoid the problem.

    • LukeEnglish
      7•6 months ago

      Blue Sky “fixed” that by only having one instance.

      I suppose we could “fix” it in a similar way by inviting people to a specific instance instead of pointing them at join-lemmy.org.(Although that site has improved massively since the last time I saw it.)

      Don’t even mention instances or federation, just say "hey you should join me on ".

      Once they are using it, that’s the first hurdle, and they’ll notice pretty quickly that there are other servers that all (mostly) talk to each other.