Let’s compose a list of the all shortcomings so that we can address them and eventually hit 100k mau.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    The fact that many on the internet haven’t gotten past the largest hurdle, creating a Lemmy account.

    We’re currently at 462k created accounts.

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
      5·
      2 months ago

      I said this a while ago on another thread, but if I was a Dev on the project I would be working to create a website that automatically signs you up for an instance. The high level concept is instances would opt into this pool, the user would simply put in their username like any regular website, and then the system would create them an account on whichever instance was best for them (maybe based on ping/trying to spread population around).

      This would majorly reduce the barrier to entry in my opinion, because a lot of people just want to browse, and don’t care about the federation aspect at all.

    • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev
      3·
      2 months ago

      This one is my biggest challenge too… I wish there was, like, a “trial” instance that folks were automatically signed up for and then after 30 days they had to switch and find another instance.

      Once you’re in the door it’s lovely, but that first barrier to entry scares people off.