Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

freamon

@[email protected] OP answered here: https://feddit.org/comment/4286281 (the lack of mobile apps, was the answer)

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i hate IP laws, but it is what it is

It is what it is because we are too afraid to challenge them.

which made you demand that everyone else change their usage patterns to filter out the spam you created.

I really don't get this argument. Browsing by "all" is akin to drinking from the firehose, people are not using the affordances that the software provided from the very beginning and then the problem is with those who are bringing content to the network?

Next you are going to tell me that the reason we should keep Lemmy small is to not break people's workflows.

the existing lemmy codebase was probably not performant enough for what you were planning anyway

Au contraire!. One of the reasons that I was creating so many different instances was precisely to avoid concentration of communities in a single instance. In Lemmy's currrent design, the communities are the chatty agents. Every comment and post becomes a message broadcast by the community. The reason that LW has become problematic in the overall network is less about the amount the user it has and more because of its communities.

But it creates a chilling effect

I just disagree, here. In fact, it feels like the opposite is the problem here. I feel like the Fediverse is so concerned about being a place for minorities and outcasts that it only accepts fringe opinions.

Mastodon is a really crappy name.

May as well be, but completely irrelevant. There are a dozen other projects providing microblogging and a Twitter-like experience. All of them failing to appeal to a more "normie" crowd.

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Yep, lemmy definitely has a problem with too much politics.

I propose that no post should include the head or face of any politician. Seeing a politician typically ruins your day. Best to either keep politics abstract (memes) or not do that at all.

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Thanks for the link.

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Rule. Clickbait or meaningful?

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Good reasoning all 'round! Although Lemmy.ca doesn't require you to be Canadian, so would be a decent recommendation for any NA user. As long as they don't mind some more Canada posting in the Local feed.

Meldrik

An official Android and iOS app called "Lemmy". If you wanna go big, you need the mobile platform.

Blaze (he/him)

Discover Fediverse apps with LemmyApps

Find the best Lemmy Apps to explore the Fediverse. Easily sort, filter, and submit apps with Lemmy Apps.

(www.lemmyapps.com)

Meldrik

When you search for "Reddit" in the app store and it also shows an app for Lemmy, we are getting there.

Blaze (he/him)

Reddit is going to pay enough for this to never happen

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I'm sure there are fine people on Reddit who don't know about Lemmy, but your quoted examples consist mostly of certain type of faux-"apolitical" person and that's where the solutioning is stemming from.

I don't think bringing the average default sub Redditor over would be a net positive for the platform.

Ben Matthews

Two thoughts:

I'm subscribed to 160 communities, most very small, but see interesting stuff due to the Scaled option - also deliberately avoid the big news communities. Evidently, it takes time to join 160 small cs, so to get started it could be handy to have an all/local except list, and remove the biggest news /memes unless people tick a box saying they like such. Or make an algorithm that prioritises stuff related to what I upvote (which is how other social sites seem to get people started - e.g. i just tried rednote and it quickly learned i like mountains and trains) - but i guess that's hard to implement as each instance would need to work out 'related to'.
2nd point - there are other user-interfaces - I'm using Alexandrite which has a better layout than lemmy default, but how to make this easier (instructions suggest docker, how many casual users will do that ...)?

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Echoing this, with some slight adjustments:

Promote the specific sites/communities to people, and on sites that permit it, share links back to specific posts/comments that you found interesting/amusing/etc. from said sites/communities.

Reddit got popular off the back of changes to Digg and people mentioning/sharing stuff from Reddit there. I'd imagine TikTok also grew in popularity from people sharing stuff from it on other major platforms like Instagram/YouTube/Snapchat/Twitter, much as now RedNote's growing in popularity from people mentioning it on TikTok and other platforms.

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Yeah, and while it may not solve everything, it could still help!:-)

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Hehe go for it then:-).

Rimu

Still ongoing, but basic functionality is working.