Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
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I honestly think most people will figure it out. I did.
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Same, I only lurk to see what's popping but dont comment here.
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They are entitled and don't want to expend effort
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Don’t forget to adblock them so you’re draining the resources, minutely and slowly, but draining nonetheless.
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"Which server do I join?" seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people.
The "Browse servers" page does say at the top "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn't matter which one you choose", but on showing this page you immediately scroll that message off the screen. Maybe if you kept that bit visible it would help.
Also I think comparing it with email servers might be helpful. People already know they can email anyone from any email server, and that signing up to, say, Posteo, doesn't mean you can only email other Posteo users.
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The only thing good about Reddit is that is where everyone is. Full stop.
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You've banned a lot of people who tried, asshole.
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This is what I'm seeing so far. It seems very hard to find very active communities for various topics.
Movies should be an easy one with broad appeal but even the ones you posted here are not that active.And the seemingly most active one for television is called [email protected] Why does it have movies in its name when the header is Shows and TV? Confusing and it's not even that active.
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Oh, I can do project management too!
Your next task is waves hands around ... the thing ... waves hands around some more ... like the other thing ... but different.
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We haven't banned anyone for trying to contribute. If you're talking about bans from lemmy.ml, that doesn't prevent anyone from contributing on Github. Besides, the whole purpose of Lemmy is that there can be different instances with different moderation policies.
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Lies. Publish the list of all users you've banned from github
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it doesn't matter which one you choose
That's not really true though, every instance has it's own rules, and it's own federation policies, not to mention the other instances that don't generate with it.
I'm already on lemmy, so it's not like I haven't gone through this before, yet I still haven't made a pixelfed account despite being interested because I don't want to just go for the biggest instance and I have no idea how to vet the other ones.
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I think it's better to keep it simple for new users. Tell them it doesn't matter which server since that is theoretically true in a general sense. No need to overwhelm them with all the asterisks. Once they start engaging, they'll learn the nuances and can change instances.
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I don't internet without uBlock. I honestly couldn't imagine it any other way.
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It's not that it's "too hard", it's that even a tiny set back for something that someone is already hesitant to do can be enough to make them not do it. It's just easier to call that "hard" or "confusing" than say "even a tiny set back for something that someone is already hesitant to do can be enough to make them not do it."
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In terms of the "default instance" suggestion, I have an interesting hybrid suggestion. What about having an "easy on-ramp" instance where you get registered for one month with a hard-exit (auto-migrate to other instance, perhaps using some kind of federated-auth/token system for the migration, and forced password-setup on first use of the new instance). At any point during on-ramp the user could configure destination-instance from a list in the settings (or configure auto-export for manual import to any other "auto-migrate-unsupported" instance), with optional early-migration if the user has decided before the end of the month. Optionally a recommendation engine could iteratively curate a list of suggested instances based on usage during on-ramp (admins of those instances could provide - limited number of - tags of their choosing for the engine to use for matching). That part could be opt-in because probably a lot of users would find it creepy. The UX would need to be very user-friendly "pointy clicky" because that would be the overwhelming target demographic of such an instance.
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Then they don't want to be here. Part of the reason this community is so great is because it's fueled by those who actively want to participate in a place like this. It doesn't have to be a place for everyone to be the best place for those here.
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You can actively want to do something but be bombarded with minute ultimately irrelevant details and still get frustrated.
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That would take a significant amount of work to implement, and we dont have the resources for it. But all the code is open source, so youre welcome to give it a try yourself.
