[kossTKR]

Yeah, tried the same with Lemmy. A list of half done of dead communities, all of them with zero explanation of why and how.

Then i read about the codebase and people were struggling with SQL so performance is bad - i mean what? is that really the state things, where's the talent working on this?

I'm honestly surprised that both the design, performance and docs of these alternatives are this bad in 2023.

If this has to work you need an extremely simple and well designed landing page with a super simple explanation of how this works, the creation of a user should work on more or less all instances, and you should be able to easily meta search for the communities you want and get an easy overview quickly.