The death of Sync for Reddit is what has made me join Lemmy
The death of Sync for Reddit is what has made me join Lemmy
I barely use reddit anymore save for porn and niche subs but after that glorious app I had used for ages finally died a few days ago I felt devastated. it was like losing an old friend. I hope reddit dies an even slower and more painful death
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Welcome kit
- fediverse.info
- A 5-min Tour of the Fediverse
- Lemmy Intro
- Reddit migration
- sub.rehab
- Unoffical Subreddit Migration List
- Reddit Megathread
- Lemmymap
- Fediverse Observer
- Fedi DB
- to the Fediverse
- Awesome Lemmy Instances
- Lemmyverse Explorer
- lemmy the-federation.info
- Lemmy Community Browser
- Lemmy/Fediverse Mod Openings
- Guide to finding Lemmy Communities
- !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- instance block check
- lemmy source
- lemmy andriod client
- What is ActivityPub?
- The Fediverse Could be Awesome (If We Don't Screw it Up)
I’m sure this “welcome kit” is meant as a helpful thing but I have to wonder if it is exactly the problem that prevents Lemmy from being adopted.
When someone joins Reddit, they don’t need to read a literal plethora of guides on how to use Reddit. It’s obvious.
What looks like a helpful thing to do is instead going to intimidate and confuse new people.
So ultimately the question is: why isn’t Lemmy obvious to use, and how do we make it so?
Dude. What? People have been complaining for years that they didn't understand reddit. I started using the site 13-14 years ago and remember, distinctly, tons of people utterly confused as to how the site worked. Overtime it got more adopted. Combine that with Mastadon becoming more universal as well, over it's twitter counterpart, and this is just the next stage of internet evolution. It's been shown that we can't trust companies to do it for us so we'll do it ourselves.
Exactly... I've tried to convince one of my friends to use reddit instead of 9gag (yes) and she found it too difficult.
Reddit wasn't easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.
Thing it though, you don't really need to read any of it.
The experience is pretty similar for the end user. However the guide is very useful if you want to get to the back end stuff.
With time. Reddit is 18 years old I heard. Lemmy few months old
Lemmy is like 3 years old. But yes, it's only really gotten attention for a few weeks and development has ramped up considerably in that time.
Reddit wasn't easy to understand either when I joined 13 years ago. I guess discovery is part of the fun.
you don't read sidebars do you?
When someone joins reddit it isnt obvious what to do. A lot of people come from more common linear communication systems like bbs and etc and the whole reddit comment chain can be confusing to follow. It also is extremely confusing about joining communities and what that does to your feed. The thing is reddit has been around for a lot of years and those of us who have used it have forgotten how confusing it was in the beginning.
I think it's really the choice of federation. I imagine it's against the spirit of federation, but is the answer just to direct people to lemmy.world to first sign up? From there, do what you always did on reddit, but check note that you can sub to other communited not on lenny.world? I just migrated a few days ago, but it was that initial choice that was confusing to me and delayed my signing up.
I have the most extensive list of Lemmy apps, you can include it in your welcome kit: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
added, ty
Here is where I'm keeping the updated list. https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
Too much, keep it simple, stupid!
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/join-the-fediverse/
Could you open a pull request to categorize all this into the awesome list for lemmy?
I see you've added the Awesome Instances list, but dbeley's is more general, e.g:
alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc. Thank you!i updated the main list ty
will need to start organizing this a bit more.
you can find the maintained copy here: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/30829
Thanks