Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners
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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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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
We don't need to reach 1M MAU, but having 100k would already be a nice improvement
Definitely agreed with this. And less always (understandably) angry political posters, more escapers that want to chat about movies, games etc. It becomes like that snake eating itself because people that want a break from real life come here and see nothing but the same 24 news cycle as everywhere else. And then, speaking for myself, searching up certain niche communities and finding them either non-existent or with 3 posts from 1 and a half years ago.
I've been thinking of porting a couple of my old review posts over here from my banned but not yet closed Reddit account. Just so that, for example, the next time someone visits the Ghibli community there'll be 4 posts instead of 3.
And the Sonic communities are pretty disappointing too, considering I'm always seeing it mentioned in the wild these days. Makes me think (or hope) that there's a lot of people like me wishing there was more activity in these areas.
Reddit is sadly still unbeaten in searching up a TV show that you enjoy and finding an entire community built around it. And those communities never took a lot of members. So it shouldn't be impossible here.
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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
This is the best platform for constant live updates about what the people you don't like are up to. Then there's articles about everything that's wrong in the world and also some memes - mostly political.
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The hard part is that for some people, News and Politics is actually what they are looking for. Others want only Memes and never not that, while still others want content types like Gaming or Arts and Crafts, etc.
So when Categories of Communities and/or Topic areas is implemented, this issue will be solved, but until then these are merely a best guess about what an "average" user desires to see, rather than allowing them to choose their own experience.
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Sure. The suggestion I did for the devs is just to have another tab "suggested" which will be a feed of the preselected comms from the admins. Anyone can easily switch away from it
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
And then only with deeper knowledge of how the Fediverse functions under the hood - like how "instances" relate to "communities" and specific moderator names, especially when working from a remote account on a different instance than the community structure... Hey, where are you going?
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Blaze (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
selection of 20 non-political communities: https://feddit.uk/post/22376629
