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  • btaf45@lemmy.world
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    A huge barrier for some is picking the instance and figuring which community they should follow.

    Figuring out which communities on which servers to subscribe to is way more important than figuring out which server to post from.

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      no, it does matter, because of the “local” feed.

      I am in favor of creating something intermediate between “local” and “global”. For example, it should also show you a few posts of “neighboring” servers, but not so much from servers who are further removed.

      But that effectively goes in the direction of creating a recommendation algorithm, which is a notoriously difficult topic, because everyone will complain about the results.

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      To get to that point you have to have selected an instance and then learned how it all works so IMO that’s less of a barrier for entry than it is a barrier for use