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: 18 people

  • vatlark@lemmy.worldOP
    5·
    21 hours 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.

    • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      20 hours 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 <favorite instance URL>”.

      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.