Blaze (he/him) @ Blaze @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 131Comments 1,155Joined 2 yr. ago
Join-lemmy suggests outdated and defederated instances: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536
And I’ve been seeing it all the time, to be honest. People here seem to struggle with the concept of just scrolling past something that doesn’t interest them and they just have to stop by to tell anyone how stupid they think their interests are.
Definitely
There’s no need for communities of a certain type to be on one instance.
It's nice to have country or language-communities in the local feed of one instance. Feddit.org or jlai.lu are good examples.
we should guide them to pick an instance or choose a default and give them the option to change.
Isn't that what most people are doing nowadays?
hexbear.net is still on auction, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca for details
Would they be interested in Lemmy? Them using old.reddit shows that they would probably like it here
Lemmy users tend to forget linking to instances. It's usually much easier for someone to join if they know where to go
The one I use is: "Lemmy has 47k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/settings/install if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com / https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391 for the reasoning behind this comment
Default way to access the platform for the average potential news joiners is mobile
Voyager, Thunder, Artic provide good defaults.
https://piefed.social/ has user-level instance muting similar to Mastodon
«this thing costs two dollars»
vs
«this thing costs dollars two»
Different feeds. Typically I have
- one account for meta discussions ( !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , !fedigrow@lemm.ee , !fediverselore@lemmy.ca , !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com )
- one account for hobbies (!lego@lemm.ee !photography@discuss.online , !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works )
- one account for tech news ( !android@lemdro.id !privacy@programming.dev !technology@lemmy.zip )
- one account for movies and TV shows, because it's quite active and can fill the feed easily (!movies@lemm.ee , !showsandmovies@lemm.ee )
Being able to only see hobbies content is nice, but keeping tracks on the fediverse and tech is interesting too.
I wanted to try lemmy.cafe as they defederate lemmy.ml. It's a nice instance, it was just a tiny bit slow for me, so I moved back to sopuli.
Reddthat was very nice too but it can be indeed a bit slow for me
Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and others I used to need before https://lemmy-federate.com/ was a thing to manually federate communities to the different instances.
I'm sure I'm missing a ton of them, so please comment with the missing ones, I'll edit the post at the end of the day so that we can reuse it next week
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca to discover communities!
Then you probably hit the main issue. Everyone's time is limited.
join-lemmy.org tried that approach, the experience is subpar: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536
I've seen people using Voyager for a year and not even knowing what their instance is. They seem content, vote, post just like on Reddit.
People can drive a car without knowing what type of engine it is. They turn the wheel, it turns.
https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has a "rating" column, to be compared with "last release"
OP, FYI I pinged you on this post but it was probably drown in the replies to your posts: https://lemm.ee/post/55244676
If you want to try out your approach (Photon as default, probably some communities hidden from the All feed), feel free to create a community dedicated to that project. You can probably promote it here and on a few other communities. The biggest challenge is probably going to find an admin wanting to give this a try.
I wanted to do something similar a months ago ( https://lemm.ee/post/52588852 ), but no admin was interested. Maybe you’ll have more luck.
OP, FYI I pinged you on this post but it was probably drown in the replies to your posts: https://lemm.ee/post/55244676
If you want to try out your approach (Photon as default, probably some communities hidden from the All feed), feel free to create a community dedicated to that project. You can probably promote it here and on a few other communities. The biggest challenge is probably going to find an admin wanting to give this a try.
I wanted to do something similar a months ago ( https://lemm.ee/post/52588852 ), but no admin was interested. Maybe you'll have more luck.
People are still on Twitter while the owner makes Nazi salutes and Bluesky is a 1:1 replacement feature-wise with a modern interface. People just don’t like to move.