One thing that bluesky did very well was abstracting the decentralisation (i know, its not really decentralised, bear with me) was having "apps" be centralised. What if we just pointed people towards a lemmy.app thing and that had a server as default?

Alexandrite.app does this, but it defaults to lemmy.world which is a bit of a dealbreaker.

Edit: By "app" I mean client.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think this could work if it was a kind of demo instance that after some weeks or so would show increasingly annoying popups to switch to another instance.

The official Mastodon app kinda follows that idea with mastodon.social, just that the annoyance isn't intentional but a result of their bad moderation and thus spam problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems dangerous, people might just leave the platform all together

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think that's a serious problem as people that have so little interest that they leave because of that, would stop using it anyway sooner rather than later.

Of course the migration needs to be at least as easy as on Mastodon. Lemmy is still far from that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mastodon.social has a "spam problem" because they're the largest target. We're lucky it's them because they're one of the few instances with the resources to take on the problem. They've also contributed a ton - in tools and strategies - to help other instances deal with the problem.