• @[email protected]
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    I’ve been trying to hammer this point home.

    I wish devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for the fediverse with an option to click “advanced sign-up” if you choose to do so.

    The easy mode would just automatically assign an instance based upon some algorithm.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I wish the devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for creating a web site. The web will never catch on with all this complicated stuff.

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        21 year ago

        Honestly I like the fact that there is some difficulty in the sign up. I think it brings a better quality of people to the Fediverse.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        Well, like asking users what their preferences are and select the servers based on the criteria users have chosen?

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          91 year ago

          Hmm actually yeah this is a good idea, but the problem is that there’s so many servers that I feel that after choosing criteria there’d still be a bunch of servers in the list and the problem remains, right? Just bouncing ideas. I quite like this idea though.

          • Square Singer
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            61 year ago

            Then the algo recommends the one with the lowest load and hides the others behind a … icon or something.

            • Noodlez
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              31 year ago

              Mm this could be a problem because server load is too unpredictable. I would actually say just randomize the list, so that it kinda does its own “load balancing” by incentivizing to pick whatever random top one it selected?

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                Yeah, whatever metric. Could also use a mix of number of users, some form of reputation measurement, uptime, etc.

                I mostly meant that the system should pick a “best server” and recommend that. Smarter people than me can come up with the best metric.

                But swamping the user with >100 servers to pick from is counterproductive.