Yeah, I fully agree. It should be something more along the lines of “sane defaults” (seeing all instances, automatic recommendation on signup, app-level migration) than “autopilot”, but I will probably discuss this more once I have the time.

Could be done in apps. Managing federation under the hood if the user wants so, I mean. I’m an absolute smoothbrain regarding all things web (or mobile lol), but I use my barebones, cobbled-together desktop Lemmy client sometimes, so maybe I could repurpose it for other users?

If the site is not federated, it’s not possible to leave it without also leaving all its content behind.

Here is an exhaustive list of fedi projects. Enjoy!

Seems to be working. Is the issue still there?

https://the-federation.info/

Click ‘active last month’, either for the whole Fediverse or after selecting a platform from the list.