Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
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It's a very different style. I couldn't slog through it
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That's a recipe for disaster if I've ever heard of one. Fixing Jane in accounting's monitor or figuring out the routing table for the entire enterprise. All top priority!
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Unfortunately the people advertising lemmy on reddit and elsewhere rarely link join-lemmy.org, and direct people to join a few large instances. So we'll likely keep having centralization problems for the forseeable future.
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Yeah. But its nice to have this platform. Its existence shows that people dont need big tech platforms to find eachother and communicate. Its not perfect but its a stepping stone and an inspiration for others.
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There are multiple similar subs on reddit as well though, often with very slightly different names
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You make a good point. The key difference is that some instances block other instances (or at least that has been my understanding of how Lemmy works from my limited time here). So depending on where they sign up they might not even be able to access certain subs.
Plus the "duplicate" subs on reddit tend to be one of two reasons. The original moderators let the sub die or enough people didn't get along with how the original sub was being moderated and they left to make their own copy. It's pretty rare that there are two identical subs that have equal engagement.
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It’s pretty rare that there are two identical subs that have equal engagement.
It's rare here too
[email protected] hs 1400 weekly active users
[email protected] has 470
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Are you under the impression that just everyone is a web developer?
The Lemmy documentation is just text
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Join-lemmy.org can provide a subpar experience: https://lemmy.ml/post/24730483?scrollToComments=true
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Nobody is talking about updating the documentation.
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That still doesn't address the fact that not all instances are created equal. And it's not immediately apparent which instances block others.
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I got you guys, lets start with daily standup to get everyone on the same page.
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Easier
If choosing a server and signing up is too "hard" for someone, then I'd rather they stay on Reddit.
Can Lemmy benefit from your suggestions, definitely. But the easy vs hard structure to these types of conversations feel a lot like the shopping cart dilemma.
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This is only if you aren't logged in. If you login to reddit you can use a VPN fine. It is still so incredibly annoying though.
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The great thing about Lemmy is that it is an open source project and you can tweak the UI yourself if you have a bit of HTML and CSS knowledge. Do not be put off my fancy words like Bootstrap, Inferno, Tailwind, many are just HTML, CSS, or Javascript under the hood.
If anyone on here is looking for a more a more accessible Lemmy theme, I helped make one recently for the instance RBlind: RBlind Lemmy Themes (Codeberg repo). I made detailed documentation as well which could be helpful for theme developers or for those interested in helping improve Lemmy's accessibility.
Since making the theme, I've been making some pull requests (PRs) with lemmy-ui and lemmy-docs to try improve the UI and docs based on some of the things I saw while developing the theme. I hadn't done anything involving PRs before but the Lemmy team dessalines and nutomic have been very receptive so far and offering helpful suggestions. The changes are small but every bit counts, and when they trickle down to all users I am hoping it'll be a positive change for many users.
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Oh interesting to know thank you. I nuked my accounts there so am not doing that, I guess.
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I usually go with
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
That way people are pointed to two reliable instances.
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If something's subpar about it, then do what's recommended in this post. Open an issue on the repo, or contribute to a fix. It's open source software.
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Hey if an old guy like me can figure it out its not hard .
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FWIW, I think the design and layout of lemmy is superb. Way better than reddit, old and new.
You guys made a lot of good decisions.
