We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

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The fediverse just got way easier to join:

fedidb.com/welcome

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M. Grรฉgoire

@kopio
Yes, language is an important criterion, even more so than size of instance.

Other suggestions:
1. Maybe add a comment that it's not so important which instance you choose, since you can easily switch later.

2. Some people have received harassment when they create an account, because their instance federates with instances full of harassers. I know people are working on a long-term solution, but at present maybe the best thing would be to exclude some instances.

@kopio
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Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ‚

@Daniel Supernault Unfortunately, there is no possibility to sort instances based on the number of active users, a criterion that was well present in the old fedidb.org interface. In fact, this criterion is much more important than the one related to the total number of users. In fact, there are very old instances with a mortality rate higher than 90% that are very numerous, but in reality are not very active.

PS: why are my poliverso.org instance and Ruud's friendica.world friendica.world instance still missing? ๐Ÿ˜ญ

fedidb.com/software/friendica

@dansup
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dansup

@notizie @ThePfromtheO I did just manually fix this, the issue was your server was unreachable by our crawler more than 2 times since May 5th, I think there is a bug in the crawler, I will work on a fix.
@Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ‚ @ThePfromtheO
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Lea de Groot TZ+10

I dont think this works as is: step 2 is "choose platform". The naive user has _no idea_ on platforms. How are they supposed to choose here?
I would suggest that as a _last_ step, with preselecting all as the default
IMHO ๐Ÿ˜€

(why would anyone be selecting by technology anyway?!?!)

(and, definitely, if you get only one choice in step 2 it should be skipped completely. I picked 'photography" when experimenting, and got only pixelfed and assumed it meant the main pixedfed instance, not the technology...)

but love the concept!!!!! ๐Ÿ˜€

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Legit_Spaghetti

There's no native support for this via ActivityPub as far as I'm aware, but do you know what'd be REALLY cool for people interested in joining?

Subject matter interests.

Like a list of tags like "Politics" or "Cats" or "Furry" or "Tabletop Gaming" or "Crafting" etc., and then you could pick tags to include or exclude ("show me results that have Cats and Crafting but no Tabletop Gaming") and generate recommendations based on that.

Then prompt folks to pick 10 tags to include/exclude.

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Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ‚

@readbeanicecream Server instead seems to me the best compromise: "server" is more usable and understandable than "instance". Be careful not to underestimate the fact that the term communities already exists in the Fediverse: in fact, the term "communities" is happily used by all Lemmy and Piefed users, to indicate in their platform the "Activitypub Groups", exactly like the Mbin "magazines", the BBCode "categories" and the Friendica "groups". Now since Lemmy represents one of the most used software in the Fediverse, it would not be wise to call the instances with the name of communities, but would instead create a bit of confusion

@Daniel Supernault

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Bolt

It should definitely have a little addition to the "Choose your platform" page that compares to existing sites.

Normal users don't know what the heck the difference is between Mastodon or Pixelfed, nor do they always realize that "photo sharing" is what you'd describe something like Instagram as.

I believe there should be some kind of comparison. (e.g. Mastodon - description - Similar to: Twitter/X, Bluesky)

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bbbbbr

@aspensmonster Something to consider: I solved a similar question of how to balance "quality" vs improved discoverability for more obscure entries (in a different domain) by doing:

- "featured + ~5% random shuffle/mix chance per entry"

This way there is plenty at the top of what many people may be looking for. Along with giving more obscure entries a better chance at visibility that may just pay off if the right person sees it.

@Preston Maness โ˜ญ
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Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso โ‚

@Preston Maness โ˜ญ @Daniel Supernault Small instances make sense as communities that aggregate from the bottom and involve users starting from local projects or thematic initiatives. Small instances, on the other hand, must not be ovaries that collect disoriented users who come from the large databases of the fediverse, otherwise two problems are created:
- some small instances would not be able to handle the crowding
- some of those users would find themselves in poorly managed instances, with discontinuity of service and poorly connected to the rest of the Fediverse. In fact, some small instances are little gems, but a part of the small instances is burdened by a very high mortality and is poorly managed both in terms of reliability and in terms of privacy
@dansup @Preston Maness โ˜ญ
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