What caused users to sign up to specifically lemmy.ml, instead of other servers? I am aware a lot of users signed up after the spez AMA, but even before the AMA the site was overloaded.
I joined before the AMA, but not on lemmy.ml. Frankly, my first temptation was to ignore the overload warning for fear of missing something by joining another instance. Fortunately I spent more than two minutes figuring out how it works and decided otherwise, but that might be the reasoning behind other people’s choice
Frankly, my first temptation was to ignore the overload warning for fear of missing something by joining another instance.
I think many non tech savvy users won’t understand how Lemmy works and just give up trying to understand how to signup. Plus some instances have a form and users are waitlisted. I think that’s the biggest con of Lemmy.
It seems that the last point has been solved a few days ago by unlisting Beehaw and Lemmy.ml from suggested instances on join-lemmy.org
My first impulse as an ex-redditor is to flock to the server with highest population, because I am sheep. I want to see the most content and comments. For me fortunately likewise it took two minutes to figure out that you can see any content from any server. Maybe the server list on join-lemmy.org should show “load percentage” instead of “number of users” :)
