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I'll leave a couple of hot tips here.
This tampermonkey script helps make lemmy's post listing look more like old reddit.
This extension helps you subscribe to communities on other instances, just set it up so it knows your account is on vlemmy.net (or wherever it is):
Here's a list of communities (subs): https://sub.rehab/
and a list of instances with their permissions: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I hope tweaks like these are combined into a single extension later, like RES
And lemmyverse.net's functionality definitely needs to be integrated in Lemmy itself. Not seeing the true member count (and thus activity) is a major blow to discoverability. And makes comms seem way smaller than they are to new users
Having looked around Lemmy a fair bit and understanding the platform structure a bit, I understand small well-run instance = gold, but new users without that onboarding would easily be turned away by small user counts.
Maybe it's a problem of recent internet culture, but it seems like users have a hard time taking the effort to understand a new interface. Whatever the reason, simplicity that pushes users to understand where they are could be quite helpful.
Agreed. Onboarding and discoverability should be the top priority.
Apps should go as far as to assign new users to a random general instances (lemm.ee, lemmy.one, vlemmy.net etc) if it means users not having to know about instances.