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Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama
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You could also just have a website that 1. Selects a random instance from the ones currently available and up and 2. Shows all instances and whether they are up or down. This would encourage new users to not all pile on to the same instance.
I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff (what's a docker? What's a kubernetes? Lol) but I don't think as of right now with Lemmy, kbin, etc you can just throw a bigger single server at the problem. Anyways, that's kinda against the purpose of decentralization anyway. I know you're supposed to pick a server based on what one you like, rules or whatever but right now they're pretty much all equivalent (except lemmygrad, lol)
Surely not a random instance. Lots of instances are niche or have more strict requirements on the user, even if they're public.
I'm saying again, there should be a way for instances to better propagate their interests/philosophy/politics/communitues and for the user to pick one based on that.
So something similar to http://www.distrochooser.de?
I know that site is specifically about choosing a Linux distro, but the idea is the same.
Answer questions with certain options, it will calculate based on the criteria you fed it, and then it will give a rating list of what instance is the best option for you.
Highest on the list being What met the criteria you provided. Lowest being what did not meet the criteria.
No, that's too complicated. We're talking a signup for a web service, that needs to be very simple.
I'd take just a single page with selection of interests. I think some community/multimedia apps already do something like that. Then maybe another page with stuff like "it's fine if I need to wait for approval" or "I can provide an email address" or whatever may be...
But definitely needs to be simple.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Should work for that, they just need to have a good newbie page with a curated selection of generic servers at the top, with a random one selected, maybe based on location?
Is the instances really a major barrier to entry, It seems no different to me than picking an Email provider.