Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson

    • gabe565@lemmy.cook.gg
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      1 year ago

      That’s just the default, and I assume it’s mainly to make it easier for new users to start using Lemmy. It lets you change to any other instance during login.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’ve tested the app out. But the problem is that people who don’t know any better (which almost none of new people do, me included when I was new) will just use the default. Which is down a lot. This causes two things:

        • forces lemmy.world to upgrade its hardware all the time
        • discourages new users from trying Lemmy because it doesn’t work

        Getting a list of some instances (that are not as overcrowded) and assigning one at random by default would be the best way to go about it.

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            1 year ago

            I mean, it’s obviously fine for them (the problems will probably get stable after some time and they gain more users in the process), but it’s not good for Lemmy overall and not for new users.

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          Honestly I think having a default one is necessary for users to put their trust in the service. If there’s no lemmy.world, another server will become the go to (it used to be lemmy.ml before world). People want to have their account on the instance all their friends have it on so that they’d never be alone in losing their account or the service being offline for them. And the bigger the instance, the more trustworthy it seems.

          Lemmy.world has also been a tremendous help in debugging performance issues due to necessity.

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            1 year ago

            Honestly I think having a default one is necessary for users to put their trust in the service

            As I said:

            Getting a list of some instances (that are not as overcrowded) and assigning one at random by default would be the best way to go about it.

            People want to have their account on the instance all their friends have it on so that they’d never be alone in losing their account or the service being offline for them

            That… doesn’t make sense.

        • wahming@monyet.cc
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          1 year ago

          Fediverse drama being what it is, though, that’d probably involve the dev in all sorts of arguments and debates he’d rather not touch with a ten foot pole

          • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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            1 year ago

            Possibly, but if you want to get paid more, maybe your app shouldn’t expose “lemmy.world is having issues” as one of the first things new people see.