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[–] ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I know what they're going for but yeah it does seem like an iffy move to sign everyone up for a main server. Unless they're letting people get settled and then emailing/encouraging them after a couple weeks/months to change instances?

Problem with that being that most people won't want to move after setting things up in the first place.

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't that convenient? All new users automatically under their instance? Peachy!

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I personally don't really care for this change, but it would have been nice - although I understand it would have taken significant time/effort to develop that could be used in other areas with the limited resources - if there was some criteria to create a selection of instances that would be randomly selected based on something like:

  1. instance age - Your instance must be active for N months/(years?) to qualify to ensure rando spawns that may die a week later don't impact users, as well as being able to track the next rule:
  2. instance reliability - If there is a way to track this, only include instances that meet a specific number and maintained it for the last N months. It would suck to throw users into an unreliable instance, or one that started off great but started going south in the last 3 months.
  3. same server rules and privacy policy - To ensure a "family friendly" set of default instances that people could easily join without having to overthink it.

Not sure what else they could track, but those three would be a good start, though admittedly a lot of additional work.