> Lenny has a major issue (which I think is a fatal flaw) which is that as soon as you go to the site you have to choose a server (of which there are hundreds)

> Lenny has a major issue (which I think is a fatal flaw) which is that as soon as you go to the site you have to choose a server (of which there are hundreds) and you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site. This is an outstanding advantage. Let Reddit be Reddit with its eternal September and easy access for everyone. Lemmy could build smaller and much more useful and expert communities. If one has something important to share, then finding an instance is no obstacle. If one just wants to mindlessly shitpost, then maybe it's good some social media sites will be worth too much effort for them to sign up. Personally, I would like paid and privacy-respecting social media sites focused on experts in their fields. Much like academic journals, but with modern social media features and for industry experts and enthusiasts as well as academics in a wide variety of fields traditional and not - everyone who is willing to put some effort into what they spend time on. I think that 0 price of entry is unnatural. No one accepts people in their social circles who spend 0 effort on participating in a mutually-beneficial way. And yet on the internet, that's the only kind of social networking most of us can do. So I say it's good we have a tiny test of effort for people who sign up to Lemmy. Socializing with 0 skin in the game is very unnatural and even if it's better in some philosophical way, the human brain hasn't evolved to deal with a massive amount of garbage that this kind of social networking brings. If you want to communicate something to a lot of people, the price of entry should be at least a modicum of effort. And this is not some far-out untested idea, it worked very well in the 90s.