Whenever barrier to entry is discussed for lemmy, and reducing confusion for different servers is brought up, all of the isolationist comments come out of the woodwork.

Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?

We have a platform that seems to be working and slowly growing. Shouldnt we want good defaults in place to give the best possible experience with minimal user effort?

  • Grandwolf319
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    2 days ago

    I haven’t seen many comments not wanting people to join but more like, we are fine even if they don’t.

    When I joined lemmy, I found it to be rather easy, so I never understood this barrier to entry.

    I think it’s because someone just linked me to an instance, so I just went there and signed up like a regular site.

    Ideally we want more users and for the fediverse to hit critical mass but idk how that can ever happen when corporate social media sites will always have a marketing budget.

    So imo it’s not the difficulty, it’s like wondering why people keep paying for certain software when there are free alternatives, cause corporate software will always be more dumbed down.