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Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

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[–] echo@feddit.uk 47 points 1 year ago (22 children)

It was always going to happen but an instance being the defacto default for Lemmy is a bad thing.

There really needs to be a tool to help people pick an instance, but even then people would just flock to the general instances like .world anyway

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Myself and another developer are working on something we think will solve this:

OP: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726 TLDR: Automatic User Distribution

Whenever someone goes to the sign up page, for example, on Lemmy.world, we:

  • look at the recommender list
  • find the server that is most under capacity
  • have a very large iframe with "Sign up for Lemmy (using [under capacity server here])"
  • have a small "No, I want to sign up specifically on Lemmy.world" option
[–] midas@ymmel.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Would also be cool to have like a short questionnaire, like picking your class in Morrowind, but instead you end up on a German industrial metal music instance.

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