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What are some valid criticisms of Lemmy do you hear from people who tried out the platform? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Let’s compose a list of the all shortcomings so that we can address them and eventually hit 100k mau.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The fact that many on the internet haven’t gotten past the largest hurdle, creating a Lemmy account.

We’re currently at 462k created accounts.

[–] Paradachshund 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I said this a while ago on another thread, but if I was a Dev on the project I would be working to create a website that automatically signs you up for an instance. The high level concept is instances would opt into this pool, the user would simply put in their username like any regular website, and then the system would create them an account on whichever instance was best for them (maybe based on ping/trying to spread population around).

This would majorly reduce the barrier to entry in my opinion, because a lot of people just want to browse, and don't care about the federation aspect at all.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Which instances would you put into this pool besides lemm.ee and lemmy.zip?

lemmy.world is too large
sh.itjust.works is a non neutral name (most people probably won't mind, but some others might be deterred)
beehaw.org is behind and deferated
lemmy.dbzer0.com andn discuss.tchncs.de have a name that can be hard to remember
programming.dev is topic-oriented
lemmy.ca, feddit.nl, feddit.org and sopuli.xyz are country/language-oriented
lemmy.blahaj.zone is queer-oriented, not sure they want people who don't support queer people to join
other instances are probably not busy enough to have all the communities subscribed