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Stop making good the enemy of perfect!

I'm just going to post this old post again.

or for the lazy

I was forced to go to Lemmy after the post-inauguration bloodbath, but Ive liked it a lot, more than Reddit in many ways. I was getting really tired of the bots, puns, Russian Propganda, novelty accounts, TROLLS, etc.

OTOH, I feel like I can speak much more freely on Lemmy. Even before I got permabanned, Reddits Free Speech mission had become non-existent.

The downside of Lemmy is that some of my favorite subs don't have an equivalent on Lemmy. For instance, the Reddit guitar subs are very active, but the few Lemmy guitar forums are nearly empty, with posts that are days, weeks, months, and even years, apart. I tried Googling "Lemmy Guitar" for ideas, and literally every link was about Motorhead.

So I welcome more quality Reddit immigrants, as long as all the Trolls stay over there.

The cold truth is that to onboard people in greater numbers you need a default instance recommendation. You just do. You absolutely cannot ask potential new users (many of which will - hopefully - be casual and not so tech savvy) to sit down and undertake a multi hour research project into finding an appropriate small instance for them. You cannot reasonably expect people to look into uptime, funding and defederation lists to make an informed decision about where to register. You just need them through the door and posting and commenting and voting.

Making a new account somewhere else is super easy and painless once they're already here. We just need to get them here.

Makes sense.

Lemmy.world is filled with censorship and genocide apologists. It’s basically an exact clone of Reddit’s culture of smug libs that look down their noses at other poor people while working tirelessly against their own best interest by supporting corrupt oligarchs that weaponize identity politics as a highly effective dog whistle.

lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post. vpn is basic internet hygiene. do not go to lemmy.world if you care about that, our you will not be able to post.

you can join any federated instance instead.

one day later edit: i took my information from this post of a lemmy.world admin: https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632

I was made aware that users are able to post on lemmy.world while using a vpn. maybe their stance has changed?

aside from that, try to avoid joining the biggest instance and join smaller, federated instances instead. this reduces load and avoids centralization.

"Lemmy is great, you can choose whatever instance you want! But fuck you if you choose that one."

I don't see the issue with recommending a generic instance, if your intend is to convert the generic user. It certainly is a better experience than saying 'ok, so choose what you like from this list of instances' and they don't even know the implications or what that means.

The overcomplication of Lemmy is an issue, and this behavior tries to avoid that.