For those that weren’t there for the mastadon growth, it came is several waves. the reddit blackout begins tomorrow 6/12. Are the Lemmy sysadmins expecting a second wave of growth? If so how big?
For those that weren’t there for the mastadon growth, it came is several waves. the reddit blackout begins tomorrow 6/12. Are the Lemmy sysadmins expecting a second wave of growth? If so how big?
I’m wondering if there’s anything motivated users of Lemmy can do to help out and make the transition for folks easy.
I want Lemmy to succeed and fir people trying it out to like it and stay.
I think having the defaults set to global instead of local when searching will make it easier for new users to find communities and only show a few lemmy instances that are good to show for new users, the biggest complaint is that lemmy ( and all federated services ) are too complicated trying to find a instance.
Other than creating content and interactions, one thing I’ve been trying to do is make sure to search up and federate any cool new remote communities I come across, even if they’re not something I care to subscribe to myself.
In theory that makes it slightly easier for other people joining my instance to find things when they search, because I feel like the weird “search and get no results but then wait 15 seconds and it’ll change to pull results” behaviour is a major source of confusion for new people atm.
How do you “federate” a community, I like this idea and would like to help, but I don’t know how! :-)
Search for the community’s url in your instances’ search.
Oh right, as simple as that? Nice one, thank you :-)
One thing that will likely be a huge dealbreaker is the spam-stopping wait period that many instances are using, but this could be getting used to drive new users to low-sub instances. While the tactic is understandable, many will likely be turned off by it.
Personally, I think the learning curve is part of wanting to use Lemmy, and even Linux has been abstracted enough that it can be used by just about anyone now.
I agree actually, when I was joining Lemmy a few days ago I looked at a few instances and they all asked me to write a blurb why I wanted to join that instance. I get it and I think that’s a good way of curating a community but I wanted to switch to Lemmy right then, not in a few days when my application is reviewed.
I ended up on sh.itjust.works which didn’t ask for any of that and just gave me an account, but I think quite a few people like me won’t want to wait until their application is approved.
Agreed, although my application to Lemmy.world was approved inside about 5 minutes. However new users won’t know that, and you’re right it could definitely be off-putting IMO.
Doesn’t help that my confirmation for joining midwest.social got kicked to my spam folder.
Ugh, what a pain! Hopefully this sort of stuff is just teething problems though!