cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24394554
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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don't care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal "Chinese spy," while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.
"This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren't controlled by the same few oligarchs," Quintin said. "People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks."
Was just talking with a friend that downloaded a Mastodon app a while back when Twitter was bought by Elon, encountered the "Choose a server" bit, and bailed after choice paralysis. They're technical and have a doctorate in Computer Science so it's not like they couldn't figure it out, but there's something in the human psyche where most people don't want to make choices like that. They're on Bluesky now and think its great.
IMO sites like https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join and https://join-lemmy.org/ should just have a normal sign up flow, and load balance between all servers that opt in. Looks like that's going to happen for Pixelfed:
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113830788279211715
It'll make some people unhappy, but that's just how you get "normies" onto the Fediverse.
If there were a good invite system you could have just shared that including a pre-selected instance for your friend. That's way more effective than trying to explain federation to people not really that interested in the first place.
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
Server choice affects content discoverability, I don't think omitting that helps in the long run.
They're going to be fine with those two. Mentioning federation issues from the get go is the best to get them uninterested in Lemmy immediately
This feels like kicking the can down the road just to trip on it later, but I respect your effort and dedication, so do what you think is best, I wish you luck.
I think that's already too complicated. And the part about the server location is irrelevant as the person doing the invite should already know where the person they are inviting is located. It should be just a "Welcome to Lemmy, click below to register and afterwards you are shown a QR code to link a mobile app like [insert recommended option] if you want".
It's not, because I use that on /r/Redditalternatives where I have no way to know where people reading the comment are located
https://old.reddit.com/user/BlazeAlt
That's not an invite but random promotion then though. Basically an advertisement.
Promotion indeed, not a precise invitation.
Trying to get people on Reddit looking for an alternative about Lemmy, as that seems the best way to get more users here.
you can do that on Mastodon.
I think the Join Fediverse site should ask a few questions (what service do you want? Where are you? What are your interests?) and spit out a small handful of suggestions. Shouldn't be too difficult to program.
That's what join-lemmy.org does, is it not?
It doesn't ask where you are, just the language. As it's for Lemmy only, it obviously doesn't ask what service you are looking for too.
Join the Fediverse needs something much more like that but with the extra options. As it stands you have to do way too much scrolling, reading and clicking.
... and when it asks what language, it doesn't differentiate between English and American Englishes, for example, and you have to scroll down quite a long way to get shown Feddit.uk.
Sometimes you just want to know everyone's on the same page when you talk about biscuits, pants and fannies.
Yeah, that's a bugbear of mine, and one of the reasons I think this place is necessary - people do seem to default to English-language = America. I think quite a few people aew surprised to find lemmy.world is hosted in Europe and subject to their laws.
It's why @Blaze@feddit.org has been looking into promoting American content on American instances.
I got through it but that’s why I’m @lemm.ee instead of something good.
I went: oh a UK instance, that'll do. And now I help run the place.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with lem.ee I'm thinking that's where I'll set up my backup account for when Aussie.zone is down
No reason you can't make the switch now to a better instance
.> Mind shuts down when asked to make a choice for himself
.> Is in computer science
Checks out
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
If account migration is easy, that’s probably ideal. If you use something for a while and find yourself drawn to a specific server, and moving is easy once you’ve got a handle on the service, great. That could also help smaller communities who want to vet new members, allowing them to see post/comment history.
this is what the open source community refuses to understand. If you want to go mainstream, you need to give users less choice. There is one windows, there is one macos, but one struggles to describe just what a linux distro even is.
Lmfao