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Of course it will hurt the migration. Lemmy.world should've halted open registration and directed folks elsewhere until they were able to get their house in order.
Instead, a migrant's experience was as follows:
"I can't create an account, the site won't load".
"Okay, now I have an account, but I browse anything because the site won't load."
"Okay, now I can browse, but I can't make posts or comments because the site won't load".
"The site's been wishy-washy for 5 days, I guess it's always like this".
Most don't understand they should've joined a different instance. But hey, this QoL stuff affects all Lemmings, because the biggest communities are in the affected instances.
So instead of a great Reddit alternative, migrants got a product that didn't work as advertised. And a message board, no less - a technology that's existed since the dawn of the internet.
So, I get it. But I'm not upset because I understand Lemmy is an emerging technology that'll require a little patience. Replacing one of the biggest websites of all time is not going to be easy.
r/Lemmy is going to reflect the layman. We should listen to their feedback, help them out and take criticism seriously. I'm of the camp that Lemmy needs as few barriers to entry as possible - which is why I'm loving the progress of some of these mobile apps. Some (like Memmy) have an onboarding guide for new users. We need more of that.
At least the issues with lemmy.world seem to have been resolved. While I'm sure some folks were put off by the challenges, I don't think that the migration is anywhere close to finished. What's key now is to ensure that Lemmy has good engagement and content for people to interact with. From what I've seen, a lot of users here were lurkers primarily on Reddit, but are contributing more here in order to help get things off to a good start. If we keep that energy and keep improving the experience, then it's entirely possible that Lemmy can be seen at a minimum as a viable alternative to Reddit for folks who don't like what they've got going on over there.