I like what Isopod did, linking them directly to a instance.
The only way to catch the average joe is to hold their hand and get them to content as quickly as possible. While linking them to the largest instances may not be the healthiest for decentralization, it's going to give newcomers the best experience.
A lot of redditors, I'd even say the majority now-a-days, use the app. While a lot of the Lemmy apps are great. I wish there was one that guided you through the entire signup process.
They're thinking too hard about it.
You register in server A. The community is in server B. Server A and B send info back and forth. That's it.
Proposal: what if we [older users] made a FAQ?
Here is the FAQ:
There is no question 2.
That's a small description of the basic functionality. It does not address things like in the OP (where do you "meet" - mostly an analogy going bad from being overextended), what's the point of different servers instead of a big one, etc.
I've been reading fxomt's FAQ (Blaze linked it a few comments below), I'm going to do something like that.
Isn't there one already on [email protected] ?
Do you mean this one?
If yes: that FAQ is a good start, but it's mostly help for people already registered. I was thinking on something to clarify how Lemmy works for people who are considering to register on it. Stuff like:
If there's something already in this direction we could/should advertise it a bit more, and if it doesn't I'm seriously considering to start it.
What about this pinned post on [email protected] ?
https://mander.xyz/post/24690897
As usual fxomt doing a great job with this stuff! I'll probably suggest some stuff to add to the FAQ, like the question in the OOP.