If so consider a post to the Fedimigration community (!growthefediverse@slrpnk.net). There you'll find resources and assistance to help people get onboarded.

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The onboarding process is just as simple as anywhere else, so long as you point them to a website to use. We have to stop telling people to "join Mastodon" or "join Lemmy". That's like telling them to just "join social media".

The rough edge there is in communicating, and this weird desire ignore that this is 1000 websites, not just one.

Well, in that, and in finding off-site content to follow

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Have you checked the signup page for your Lemmy instance lately? It amounts to "write us a short ~~essay~~ personal statement of what you intend to do here and we'll manually approve your account sometime, hopefully soon." I know this is somewhat standardized among instances, and it's there for a noble reason, but it's without a doubt friction for everybody who goes to sign up, and a barrier to entry for a good chunk of people, who might not yet even fully know why they'd want to join aside from "my friend says this is cool."