That’s very kind of you ❤️

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Or something like that

@[email protected] thanks for cursing lemmy.zip 😭

We have a hook into the account creation process via the api, and when a new accout is created we basically mimic the user inserting personal instance blocks directly in the db. We also pm new users on account creation so we include info on how to remove the blocks there. It’s about the best in-the-middle solution i can do at the moment!

I agree fully with you around the moderation tools built in - it really needs some development. We do a lot via our bot to try and provide some better tooling and especially focus on the onboarding part of a new user. I think 1.0 includes some improvements here.

I can’t say how effective all of this work has been for user retention, but I’m hoping it helps get a few people away from reddit!

(just to chime in uninvited to say that we have a bit of code that inserts blocks for hexbear and lemmygrad for new users, so the new user has the option to remove the block and see that sort of content if they want to - we’re all about choice!)

I had one 30 second fight in year 9 and won, and I’m still riding that high a good 20+ years later.

I’d say I’m pretty bloody dangerous 😎

Have only seen the clip of the LMG employee saying what they said from GN’s video, but seems quite an over-reaction from GN and the other company IMO. Definitely some form of baiting for views, even if parts of the video are valid.

They’re not dodgy links.

Hard agree also - and the sign up button on each instance should just link to that randomised list, and people can join from there. Too many people go to “big” communities on the two or three big servers and want to be part of that - its a misunderstanding of how federation works and the UI needs to teach people that it doesnt really matter.

I feel like i go around in circles saying this - there are literally hundreds of servers. If servers had caps, i.e. user caps and community caps, then people would be forced to spread out, rather than relying on two or three big servers. Otherwise we just have a central server, which is Reddit with extra steps.