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A global landing page that let's people join from, asks them some basic questions and selects a server based on those answers wall while explaining in laymen's tense why. Then when the user finishes signing up presents them with a printable page of their login (user ID, server, etc.) for them to keep in their records and a button to take them straight in.
Hell, add fediserach somewhere in there as well.
People need an information kiosk
Someone could make this today. In fact, it probably already exists, but how would you find it? Also, how would the service catalog instances without being an instance itself and federating? And at that point why not just join that instance? Doesn't having a "front page" for the whole fediverse kind of defeat decentralization? I feel like every aspect of these apps runs counter to that happening.
I really don't know how - or even if - the "discoverability" issue will be solved. I also don't know if it needs a solution. I've been enjoying the slow drip of organically discovering neat little comms. It's almost exactly like the Internet used to be imo.
So, I look at this how I first saw the fediverse. There was a promise of collaboration, a united against monopolistic tech companies that originally drew me in, but how it worked was not clearly explained and I didn't really understand until much after joining Lemmy, most users don't care for the complexity and while you are correct that a cetralized Lemmy would go against the purpose of the fediverse, my idea would be of a communal lobby not one ran from a single instance but as a collaboration between the biggest instances. It only would display a catalog of instances and use API endpoints to create a new users account. The feddisearch already exists and could just be either linked to this page or also pulled in using an API if possible. Management would be handled by the owners of all member instances as well as financing.
I guess the question finally falls in do we want to go up against the big tech companies and improve the internet, or just want to exist inone of the Internet's corners and be left alone?
Yeah I hear you. I was mostly playing devil's advocate with my questions. I think your idea is very interesting, I just wouldn't expect Lemmy devs to pick it up.