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I'm wondering if there's anything motivated users of Lemmy can do to help out and make the transition for folks easy.
I want Lemmy to succeed and fir people trying it out to like it and stay.
One thing that will likely be a huge dealbreaker is the spam-stopping wait period that many instances are using, but this could be getting used to drive new users to low-sub instances. While the tactic is understandable, many will likely be turned off by it.
Personally, I think the learning curve is part of wanting to use Lemmy, and even Linux has been abstracted enough that it can be used by just about anyone now.
I agree actually, when I was joining Lemmy a few days ago I looked at a few instances and they all asked me to write a blurb why I wanted to join that instance. I get it and I think that's a good way of curating a community but I wanted to switch to Lemmy right then, not in a few days when my application is reviewed.
I ended up on sh.itjust.works which didn't ask for any of that and just gave me an account, but I think quite a few people like me won't want to wait until their application is approved.
Agreed, although my application to Lemmy.world was approved inside about 5 minutes. However new users won't know that, and you're right it could definitely be off-putting IMO.
Doesn't help that my confirmation for joining midwest.social got kicked to my spam folder.
Ugh, what a pain! Hopefully this sort of stuff is just teething problems though!