Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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Join-lemmy suggests outdated and defederated instances: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536
I usually go with https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37336391
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Someone advocating for bells and whistles will get eaten alive here. Too many people would rather read their feed on a git terminal. The pushback would be worse than the community drama!
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they could be virtually joined into one memes community at the user level
Good luck with !politics from LW, hexbear and feddit.org colliding
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Nice job articulating your arguments. Now that you've explained your stance, it can foster better discussion.
Since this explanation is so far down the thread, I suggest editing one of your more top level comments to include these points for better engagement.
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For example, lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming and lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming have around the same number of subscribers. Should I post to both? Maybe the same people subscribe to both, so that’s pointless?
.ml and world don't really share the same views and vibes
it doesn’t seem like it went anywhere?
Some communities consolidated. Electric cars did a few weeks ago. Cooking communities back in the days.
Some communities prefer to stay on their own.
[email protected] is trying to solve that issue, but regularly posting "the" community on a topic. But you can't prevent everyone to create new communities, the same way 90% of the subreddits are probably empty with a mssing mod
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It would be nice to have thriving communities for niche things. That can only really happen when there's decent numbers though. I do understand the hesitation though.
A much larger userbase will bring its own problems for instance admins, where I'm sure it'll start turning into full-time jobs to keep the lights on.
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This server is a games server. It has /c/games, /c/fallout, /c/vintagegaming, etc.
https://programming.dev/ is for programming
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ hosts a lot of queer communities
I prefer [email protected] to the [email protected]
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Eternal September.
I still recall the digg migration.
Sort of a hypocrite through cause I'm part of the Reddit 3rd Party API migration...
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I use eternity, used infinity beforehand so it basically felt like no change when migrating (eternity is a lemmy fork of infinity)
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Being already established, you have a few advantages over the newbies. You know about how a few different instances federate and work, and you know whether or not you like your instance.
Recommend your instance. Or if you wouldn't, whether because it's niche or doesn't work well in general, recommend a generic instance, even if it is .world, because it will probably work and give a good experience.
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Most of those things are kind of a matter of taste though aren't they? If you change those kinds of things you'll get other people complaining who like it like it is now. For example for me I think the default UI is excellent and the alternative ones I've tried are mostly terrible, but I know not everyone thinks the same way.
Other complaints are instance-specific but that's a good thing; instances can operate how they like because we have a choice, that's the whole benefit to Lemmy and federation.
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Lemmy is supposed to be the best of both worlds. Smaller internet communities not owned by big corpos and federated together.
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Yes, I want my niche communities back.
