I’m know there’s things I haven’t thought of but getting them in is most important.

Call it an incubator flag or whatever. Get them in so they can learn what all this has to offer. As they gain knowledge they can make a choice where they end up.

Presenting a user with a list of instances with weird dorky names is the fastest way to get a normie to delete an app. Unless that’s what you want: a fedi-filter

you found it

Maybe I should build birdhouses instead

Normies tend to stick with the first email they are signed up for. For a lot of younger Gen Z email is a non factor.

Fediverse is better at everything except onboarding. The access methods are complicated and ill explained for users who expect an app and simple signup. Regular users have no idea what an instance is. Even people who are TRYING to join the fediverse willingly pile in lemmy.world because it’s the default on most apps. There needs to be a round robin assigner to instances that opt in in order to spread users around who don’t care which general instance they join.

The fediverse feels like old internet which I like but is also a barrier to people just looking for easy alternatives.

Me trying to direct the dude at the gas station to the correct nicotine flavor