Can you expand that last line? I don’t understand clearly what you mean.

These aren’t global fediverse rules, they’re constraints meant to apply specifically to the new user experience on Lemmy only.

maybe they should need to maintain a certain percentage of high pop instances that federate with them. Basically establishing a standard of trust.

Very inside baseball opinion. It’s like me describing reddit as “endless drama” because I read every thread on subreddit drama.

A lot of disingenuous Lemmy users in that thread pretending that picking a server is more confusing than filing your taxes. I think join-lemmy should probably hot-list like 6 or 7 servers instead of making you choose via a primary interest, since you can migrate your account later anyway. But I am personally not tech oriented and managed to make an account and find an app without an issue.

The goal was never to convince people who don’t know how email works to join, it’s to convince an average reddit user to join.