I introduced kbin to someone today who asked what the fediverse was. I answered for them of course, but it made me realize that the concept is still technobabble for most people. The average joe probably doesn’t care or notice that server A is really talking to server B. Just have them find out on their own and if a mass migration does need to happen from A to B, just make a standard announcement.
The onboarding process, prior to selecting a server, could be streamlined. It’s common fair to ask new users to identify some of their topics of interest. Server admins could provide a list of tags/topics that are associated with their community. The new user would then see a list of communities ordered by strongest matches to their interests. Just a thought.
As long as it’s optional. I absolutely despise sites trying to decide what I want to see based on a few vague interests. I know that works for most people, but I can’t be the only one who would have a negative impression of that being the only onboarding option.
I love this idea! Anything (within reason) to reduce decision paralysis is a great thing, and I think this would help a lot with that.