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  • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Agree on the pick a server … And then approval!

    I had almost forgotten about it but I’m glad I came back.

    I think maybe the ability to just join a generic starting point and then port your account when you find where you want to be might be a better model, but that will remain to be seen

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I agree. Don’t make it confusing, when someone hears about Lemmy, just point them at Lemmy.ml. Then offer a one-click option to migrate to another server.

      It goes against that decentralised philosophy but makes a much cleaner entry point for new users. I think for social media, content is key, so users should start on a large community with lots of content then slowly be introduced to the idea of following other nodes.

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          If you plan for it, it shouldn’t be an issue. The issue is that reddit made an announcement and then Lemmy servers got swarmed, they weren’t prepared for it. If you were prepared, you could make sure the server had the hardware to handle it.

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            1 year ago

            Being prepared and staying prepared are two different things involving vastly different financial burdens.

            No one knows when to stay prepared.

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            1 year ago

            Some parts too are also optimisation issues popping up that were not present before. Lot of technical minds being thrown at the issues though now which is nice.

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              While optimisation is likely an issue, lemmy.ml added “only” about 7,000 users in the past few days. Probably a $1,000/mo VPS would solve most of the problems - it just wouldn’t scale to hundreds of thousands of users., and probably is not financially feasible.

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      1 year ago

      yeah, account migration between instances would be quite cool to have as well