For those that weren’t there for the mastadon growth, it came is several waves. the reddit blackout begins tomorrow 6/12. Are the Lemmy sysadmins expecting a second wave of growth? If so how big?

  • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    We are still in the first growth wave, its just been a little water so far, the actual wave is only about to hit. Second wave will be the 30th.

    And it will likely cause Trubble for the instances, mainly lemmy ml cause most people will flock there if they don’t do anything to the join page.

    • DarthRedLeader@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The join page is definitely the issue. I had already joined lemmy.ml before I read that they were encouraging people to join other instances. Perhaps I should have read the page more closely, but if it was that big of an issue, make the warning/request more prevalent.

        • macarthur_park@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere but a centralized “sign up wizard” website would be really useful for new users. Something that holds your hand through the process and explains each step. It could have you pick an instance by showing the list of federated ones, and would then hand you off to that website for the actual sign up process.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, we shouldn’t fear centralized solutions when this is the type of solution they are solving