this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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It's concerning just how many people can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes to pick an instance... Keeps it nicer for us though
I don't really think it's fair to pretend that, before two weeks ago, anyone under god had any idea what an instance was unless they were already heavily tech-oriented.
It took me hours of trying to read through not-my-kind-of-jargon to understand what the hell I was looking at and what kind of consequences that unexplained choice would have, and it really seems like a good number of users that initially struggled forget the learning curve extremely quickly the moment they're over it.
There was no learning curve for me. I randomly picked an instance LMFAO!
It was a case of: Lemmy.ml isn't accepting new users atm BeeHaw requires me to tell them why I'm a good user So does this other instance... Why do I have to justify myself!? Hey, Lemmy.world let's me just sign up! Perfect!
And that was how I chose an instance. Thank you for joining story got with Valek