Whenever barrier to entry is discussed for lemmy, and reducing confusion for different servers is brought up, all of the isolationist comments come out of the woodwork.
Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?
We have a platform that seems to be working and slowly growing. Shouldnt we want good defaults in place to give the best possible experience with minimal user effort?
I literally picked my mastodon instance because it had a really high character limit. There was basically nothing differentiating Lemmy instances besides vague things like values or who they were defederated with.
Tbf, those two ate pretty big differences
I agree however when you are joining they aren’t exactly super informitive. Didn’t even learn you could find put that information until a week after I joined.
You have media size limits with lemmy