A community to organize and discuss the growth of the fediverse as a whole
I like what Isopod did, linking them directly to a instance.
The only way to catch the average joe is to hold their hand and get them to content as quickly as possible. While linking them to the largest instances may not be the healthiest for decentralization, it's going to give newcomers the best experience.
A lot of redditors, I'd even say the majority now-a-days, use the app. While a lot of the Lemmy apps are great. I wish there was one that guided you through the entire signup process.
Isopod here.
Sorry about linking .world... I panicked...
No, you're beautiful.
No worries !
I think "Lemmy Federate" fixed the main problem small instances have (Not federating as much communities as the big ones), at least for those instances that have it enabled. Why do you think the biggest instances give the best experience?
I can agree with the last part tho, would be cool if there was an app that would do that
Stability, support, features, discoverability maybe? You're right there isn't much of a difference now. Thinking through it, I could probably retract that statement.
We really need to stop recommending LW.
100%, but I'd rather they join any instance, than none at all.
Use this one based on this list depending on the context of the conversation:
🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭Germany, Austria and Swizterland: https://feddit.org/signup
🇫🇷France: https://jlai.lu/signup
🇬🇧UK: https://feddit.uk/signup
🇳🇱Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/signup
🇩🇰Denmark: https://feddit.dk/signup
🇮🇹Italy: https://feddit.it/signup
🇸🇪Sweden: https://feddit.nu/signup
🇫🇮Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/
🇵🇹Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/signup
🇧🇬Bulguria: https://feddit.bg/signup
They're thinking too hard about it.
You register in server A. The community is in server B. Server A and B send info back and forth. That's it.
Proposal: what if we [older users] made a FAQ?
Here is the FAQ:
There is no question 2.
That's a small description of the basic functionality. It does not address things like in the OP (where do you "meet" - mostly an analogy going bad from being overextended), what's the point of different servers instead of a big one, etc.
I've been reading fxomt's FAQ (Blaze linked it a few comments below), I'm going to do something like that.
Proposal: what if we [older users] made a FAQ?
Isn't there one already on [email protected] ?
Do you mean this one?
If yes: that FAQ is a good start, but it's mostly help for people already registered. I was thinking on something to clarify how Lemmy works for people who are considering to register on it. Stuff like:
If there's something already in this direction we could/should advertise it a bit more, and if it doesn't I'm seriously considering to start it.
What about this pinned post on [email protected] ?
As usual fxomt doing a great job with this stuff! I'll probably suggest some stuff to add to the FAQ, like the question in the OOP.
Me trying repeatedly to click the links in the screenshot
(1) go to https://lemm.ee/
(2) look around. Try changing "Active" to "Scaled".
(3) if you like it, click "sign up"
Considering how many instances defederate and how their users hate each other, in reality it's not good advice to just pick any instance without learning about it 1st.
From the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy), there are 3 instances that are defederated or defederate a lot
All the other instances still federate each other.
It's an excuse to not try something new. The real problem for the majority of them is that it's a new platform that isn't Reddit. That's it. Finding communities people hang out in here isn't a problem, they just aren't familiar with the platform like they are on Reddit and don't want to so they make up the excuse that it's "complicated" and try and find ways to back it up, like thinking too hard about servers.
Really it has nothing to do with servers or the federated model at all, and has everything to do with aversion to new stuff and new places they don't know as well yet.
Nah I get it, back in the day we used to say "lurk moar" meaning you should be careful not to just barge into something and look foolish.
How does alexandrite make it easier to find stuff? And what other benefits does it have? I thought it was just a visual skin.
It's slightly cleaner than the default UI. I'm not a huge fan of the style. Photon is amazing though, I hope it gets adopted as the default UI eventually. Just a few things to iron out and it'd be the perfect recommendation. Check out phtn.app, I've customized it some on lemmyusa.com as well.
Yes, ablism is a recurring issue I encounter every day.
Lemmy.world is a bad suggestion. They and blahaj have the worst mods. Nobody wants blue MAGA Elon, but just a random asshole ruling them.