• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Whenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail.

    The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project.

    It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.

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        56 minutes ago

        The way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.

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          24 minutes ago

          But then it’s not federated. It’s all on one giant monolith of a server. Perhaps the traffic is shared between machines, but that’s not the same thing as federated.