Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners
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Ah, indeed. Thanks for the feature request
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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
I’m for the sink or swim mentality. Point them here and if they come up with an excuse to not be here then they probably weren’t going to be a good contributor anyway.
I’m fine with being selective. There is no reason we need 1M+ MAU for the sake of the network, we aren’t trying to turn a profit
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@[email protected] Thunder is written using Flutter / Dart - meaning that it's cross-platform. I've compiled the version for PieFed for windows, linux and macos, so as long as I'm able to get it working for Android, it should also work for iOS. I'll need to be someone else who does though, 'cos my mac is too old, and I don't have an iphone.
Bonus screenshot:
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Blaze (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
There is no reason we need 1M+ MAU for the sake of the network, we aren’t trying to turn a profit
There's also no reason a topic as popular as TV shows relies on 3 posters to keep the main community active: [email protected]
We don't need to reach 1M MAU, but having 100k would already be a nice improvement
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Amazing! So what, the Piefed API is already there? I thought that was still ongoing
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[email protected]replied to AWildMimicAppears last edited by
(Lets forget about the part when one guy started copying entire threads including their users, which was not well thought out)
That was me.
And sorry to disappoint you, I thought about it a lot. Mirroring the entire thread was less about the benefit the (few) users that are here and more about the potential to bring the masses of Reddit users who are stuck there because they (rightfully) claim that they do not have any other place to find their niche content. Mirroring the entire thread was also a way to ensure that we were (a) breaking the monopoly on the conversation and (b) creating an incentive for app developers to create a hybrid Lemmy/Reddit client, that could read from Lemmy and post to both, which would effectively make the transition away from the siloed network completely transparent.
The one thing that I didn't get to execute properly was that I should've completed the two-way bridging before enabling the full mirrors.
A Lemmy instance is not just a basket for specific topics, it’s a expression of ideology...
- This is booooooring. So boring. This is the kind of thing that keeps people away. To the absolute majority of people, social networks are about FFF: Friends, Family and Fucking.
- It's not an exclusive option. If you are part of 5% of people who want to be in the small, niche group are still free to do so. The other 95% of people who just care about gorging in from the content hose would be perfectly happy by following from the larger topic-based instances.
A slow and steady promotion of lemmy is the best that can happen
This is what the Mastodon crowd would also say. Now they are watching Bluesky grow, bleeding users and resorting to consolation prizes, like "Bluesky might be winning, but they are not really decentralized". Yeah, it is true. It's not "really" decentralized. 99.98% of the world will say "so what?" and continue to use it.
I'm tired of consolation prizes and moral victories. I want the web to be free, and I want it to be free for more than just a tiny niche of ideologues. Slow and steady will not win against Big Tech.
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smokebuddy [he/him]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
I signed up on lemmy.today and can see and interact with I'm pretty sure everything, I'm not sure what is meant by doesn't federate anything?
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Blaze (he/him)replied to smokebuddy [he/him] last edited by
Sorry, typo, I meant "defederate". Lemmy.today indeed shows you everything.
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Blaze (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
Friends, Family and Fucking.
Agree on FB, IG, and Twitter, but which of those are on Reddit?
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Oh, yeah. It's still ongoing. You can track the progress at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/app/api/alpha/routes.py if you like. At the bottom of that page, things with a 'Stage 1' are what's left to do.
The remaining stuff is mostly to do with chat / notifications. Once done, a basic app could be released, and then improved to include stuff that's missing (things like uploading an image to post or a comment, and viewing reports)
EDIT: sorry, this was meant to be a reply to another comment. Still getting the hang of NodeBB. Now will this edit work ...
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Great, thanks!
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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
I missed another F, for Fun.
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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
The thing I hate worst about Lemmy is that a lot of people are dickheads about their opinion, which often is barely different from the persons' opinions you see them aggressively shitting on. In other cases the opinions are pretty different but start with the same basic premise, yet some users see no common ground at all. It's become really disheartening honestly. There are probably more than 30 users like that which I had to block for my own sanity
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Blaze (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
It's human nature. Mods can help with that, so it's also community dependent.
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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
I get the frustration with not having a lot of active posters in a community despite diligence in posting and promotion on [email protected]. I’ve had the same frustration trying to operate [email protected] the last two seasons. I am not going to keep it up this offseason
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Blaze (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
Sorry to hear. How are the NFL communities doing on Lemmy in general? I'm a bit active on [email protected] (the other one), it's moderately active but still niche.
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This is what I've been saying. I think it should go even further and give admins a default block list of users.
A lot of folks talk about how Lemmy became useable after they spent hours (or sometimes a month) blocking the right communities and users, but most social media users don't want to work that hard, they just want to start doomscrolling.
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The best promotion is to be awesome.
}Lemmy, is awesome (y/n)?: _y
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give admins a default block list of users.
Usually obvious trolls are banned on their instance, so for everyone. There is also synchronization between admins to ban people on instances that admins can't be contacted
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