On reddit, you can’t post basically anything anymore. Go to computerscience, programming, gaming/games… You can’t post ANYTHING. No matter what you post, removed… It sucks. It’s like 1% of people get to post, everyone else is muted…
But lemmy is better. Here, things are fair, there aren’t over-moderation and too many rules. How do we get people here? No one wants to join lemmy.
join-lemmy.org should really just have a “Join Lemmy” button that load balances between whatever general-purpose instances opt-in to being defaults. Then there should be a “Wait, I care about which server I join!” button that does the existing UX flow.
It should also default to not showing the weirder instances like hexbear or lemmygrad. That’s going to turn a lot of people off.
That’s exactly what I’ve been telling for some time now, as well.