Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
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I have nothing to add except I hope you're still enjoying Lord of the Rings.
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I don't really agree that it's much easier to start on Reddit. Especially nowadays.
-Post from an IP that was once used by a banned account? Also banned (after first being shadowbanned)
-Try to post in any niche sub of your choosing after making an account? Forget it, wait three weeks and farm 3K karma first (which encourages shitposting and reposting, lowering quality)
-Deviate a fraction of an inch from whatever sub's 500-page rulebook? Banned.
-Try to argue an unbanning? That's a permanent mute.
Reddit is an absolutely terrible experience for new posters. How they even manage to retain a tenth of them is beyond me. I encourage them to keep it up however, more traffic for Lemmy.
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I don't think that Reddit is so much better. The interface at the moment is full of ads that make i confusing. The only thing is the community search that is a bit cumbersome, but this is due to federation, and understood. On the other hand the federation with Mastodon/Friendica/whatever is super-powerful, hand honestly enjoyable
Thank you for all your work
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I'm doing my small part.
Went from 100% lurker on Reddit to regularly active lemmy commenter
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Yeah new users are like, semi-shadow banned for a while
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All this said, there have also been some suggestions to make onboarding easier by directing new users to a hardcoded default instance. This may sound like a good idea at first but won't work well in practice. Running such an instance would take significant time for administration and moderation, but we maintainers are already too busy. Besides it would be impossible to reach an agreement who this default instance should federate with or how exactly it should be moderated. So if you want to get nontechnical users to Lemmy, the solution is to link them directly to a specific instance based on their interests.
Wholeheartedly agree with this. Also people should get use to taking responsibility for their online experiences. Corporations have made people stupid to the point they reject autonomy.
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Let's all be clear, Reddit is part of the surveillance state.
You can't log in without Google and Apple trackers being allowed. New Reddit has recapcha trackers on every page. Only old.reddit doesn't track what you see, just what you write.
Your thoughts and content belong to a publicly traded company focused on profits if you use reddit.
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Good post
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The userbase here is quite technical so there are many of you able to contribute.
As a project manager, I can help by ballooning the scope and setting the deadline to yesterday! Doing my part!
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My proposal have been a little more complicated, but IMO works well for a BFU:
- create some set of rules for "default instances" - every instance that wants to be in the list must follow them and will be periodically checked
- I don't have any particular rules in mind, but some examples might include active moderation team, obviously registrations being open and if you really want to make it easy, either no application question or having it automatically approved by an automod of some kind
- on join-lemmy, present a registration form that will create an account on a randomly selected instance from the pool and redirect there afterwards
- there should be a link somewhere for "experts" where you could link to the current wizard
I'm willing to work on this if we can sit down and agree on the criteria for the pool. I can also ask my UX guy to help a little.
Feel free to text me here or on Matrix if this is something you think is worth pursuing. I'd also appreciate if you let me know it's not the direction you want to go in.
- create some set of rules for "default instances" - every instance that wants to be in the list must follow them and will be periodically checked
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I do, although the sections in Mordor are a bit tedious to get through. But its worth it for all the details that were left out of the movies.
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I can confirm. These guys are very open to pull requests that improve the platform.
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I like this!
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I donβt have any particular rules in mind, but some examples might include active moderation team, obviously registrations being open and if you really want to make it easy, either no application question or having it automatically approved by an automod of some kind
Hexbear meets those requirements, which rule would you add to exclude them? Back in the day, exploding heads would fit them too
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I dont know. Not sure what can be improved, because that site keeps sending the majority of users to the large instances. Its against everything the fediverse was supposed to be. Decentralized. Not 5 instances having all users.
But whatever. Im happy on my smaller instance.
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This post is about UI and onboarding tho, not about mod behaviour.
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I would call them "starter" instances. And I'm in agreement there should be a set of principles that these instances should follow but at the same time telling new users that it's okay to switch instances. I started in .world but moved due to their increasingly conservative changes.
While I personally would steer new users away from .world, I think it's more important to tell them it's okay to switch instances.
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Is there an easy way to add tags (language and interests) to servers? I excepted one instance to come up with a certain combination, but there were none at all
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Thank you for this post and encouragement. I am open to volunteering my time and talents to help people find Lemmy.
However, after the work is done, it would be fantastic if you all could invest in advertising. I know that Google and Bing aren't great but if I had to guess, search trend for "reddit alternatives" is probably rising and Lemmy is in a great spot to provide reddit refuges a life raft.
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Instance topics are defined here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/instances-definitions.ts#L103
