I’ve used connect for a while now and while I’m pretty happy with it for browsing, I’m not in love with how difficult it is to join communities. Especially when you want to join a bunch of communities if your account is new.

I found it way easier to join a bunch of communities in Chrome (which is made a lot easier on the actual lemmy website) and then coming back to connect to browse.

It’s less of an issue if you just wanna join the odd community, but if you are looking to add a bunch I wouldn’t bother trying to do so through connect.

Reading all this just made me realize there’s no karma! I never even thought about it. Crazy. I definitely would prefer this system.

But I do agree it may deter other people.

One of the main reasons I even came here is to escape the toxicity of that site. I genuinely hope those people don’t switch.

This is my second post today. Doing my part.

Is there a downside to being on a smaller instance that I’m not seeing or is it kinda irrelevant?