SorteKanin @ SorteKanin @feddit.dk

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The choice of instance is kind of a big barrier though. There's also a lot of bad UX around discoverability.

... What? Okay I get all of them except the SNQ one.

That is a nice success story!

But this is only a default right? Surely an admin can open registration anyway?

I guess a new flag to only exclude it from the list but not exclude it from the stats 🤷

Sorry, but the fact that you're here means that you are probably in the top percentages of tech-literate people. Especially considering you're on programming.dev.

You're severely overestimating the technical literacy of regular people. For many people (maybe even the majority of people) even email is complex.

The platform right now is lacking actual discussions. Everyone seems to just like memes.

Honestly I've just blocked most of the meme comms 😅. It's easy to see memes when I want to anyway by just opening a private window where I'm not logged in and going to the all feed. It's always mostly memes anyway. Then when I'm logged in, I can see some other stuff without all the memes clogging up my feed.

with the exception of pixelfed

Why not that one? I'm not familiar with pixelfed.

Oh come on, let's not pretend that the fediverse is just super intuitive and easy for regular users (i.e. non-techie people). Same ridiculous notion as when people say Linux is just as user-friendly as the more mainstream OSes. It's sad and I wish it was better but it's just not right now.

That's just how it works at the moment. It only counts active users from the sites listed.

You may want to edit your comment :)

my comment was mostly a joke

Sorry for not getting it, it's just that sometimes people (understandably) get very confused about the technicalities of the fediverse and mix up things like defederation and stuff like this. 😅

Consider a /s in the future :)

I think I generally agree with you, but I don't think this is a big grievance. Lemmy.world has enough traction as it is, they don't really need the "publicity" from join-lemmy.org.

It would've been better if they had written this as some kind of policy beforehand. Like if they had written somewhere before this pull request something like "any instance with more than 40% of active users may be excluded from the join-lemmy.org listing", then it would've been more reasonable too.

🎵 the internet is for porn 🎵

You can read their motivation in the linked pull request. FWIW I don't think there's any ill intent here and certainly not an attempt to boost their own instance. I think they just want Lemmy to be decentralized and lemmy.world being as big as it is kinda prevents that.

I'm not sure I would've done it that way personally but I can see the reasoning and it's not entirely unreasonable.

This has nothing to do with other instances. The join-lemmy.org site is run by the Lemmy developers and they decide what happens with that site. They think it's problematic that lemmy.world is as big as it is (as one of the points of the fediverse is decentralization). So they removed lemmy.world from the listing on join-lemmy.org.

Note that this is in no way a defederation or anything of that sort. The site just doesn't show lemmy.world, that's all.

Hijacking top comment to give the actual answer: https://feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642

Here you go: https://feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642

Lemmy devs decided to exclude lemmy.world from the join-lemmy site because it's too big. Obviously that removes a lot of active users.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/358

I'm not a native speaker so I don't hear the fart association so much. But isn't tooting also just what a trumpet or elephant does? In that way it makes sense. But I do think the terminology is a bit silly. Why not just "post" instead of toot? Why not just "repost" or "share" instead of "boost"? It feels a bit too much like corporate social media where every feature needs a "wacky and fun" name.