Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
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Instance topics are defined here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/instances-definitions.ts#L103
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There's still plenty more detail waiting for you after LotR!
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Are you referring to join-lemmy.org? It has a randomized order for the instances, so usually smaller ones are near the top.
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I dont think its a good idea to give money to Google or Bing for advertising. It would make Lemmy appear like a commercial project and give false expectations. And we barely have enough money for development so in my opinion money its better to donate. However if you have money and want to spend it on advertising, nothing is stopping you from doing that.
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Don't forget about asking how the project is going too!
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Word of mouth is probably a better idea
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I guess I need to check it out again. If that is true, its amazing.
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I'm the OP of one of the posts that blew up about UX.
This is great news, I will look into building something like join-lemmy/onboarding that could guide users, or improving join-lemmy
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I do my part! (Throw a couple of PRS the devs way then go back to my goblin hole)
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Here's my idea for rules as well as the ones u came up with:
No illegal shit
No extremist ideology
No hexbear or ml cos they will claim they are being unfairly censored and the irony of that is pretty funny. -
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think the effort to make joining Lemmy easier has some downsides. One of the nicest things about these communities is how easy it is to have good conversations with internet strangers. I’ve grown to appreciate and hope for Lemmy not trying to be a Reddit replacement. In fact, I’m totally fine with “the masses” staying in Spez’s data harvesting machine. If, one day, Lemmy gets as popular as Reddit, I think it will inevitably have many of the same problems. It just theoretically won’t be selling your data for profit (one hopes, anyway). My wife isn’t super-techy, and I explained the concept of Lemmy to my wife in about 10 minutes. She set up an account in about 5.
To me, it’s not that using or joining Lemmy is hard. It’s that a lot of people have come to loathe change. They’re told that Lemmy is “like Reddit,” so why leave Reddit, all their accumulated Internet points, and their familiar communities/echo chambers? Pretty much all of them also use other data-harvesting social media sites, so they mostly don’t care about that aspect. When I tell my friends about Lemmy I talk about how the size of the communities is really conducive to good conversations from wide enough ranges of opinions and experiences, compared to Reddit’s too much of everything including trolls.
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Forgot to add that I’m not saying Lemmy is perfect as is. For sure there are things that can be improved and tweaked. And by all means, people who want to contribute should be encouraged and applauded. I’m just saying that the community that’s grown here is pretty great, and growth coming from slow-ish trickle of new users probably wouldn’t threaten that. Right now, Lemmy has a good late-90s, early 00s community feeling, and I really enjoy it.
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I agree with the general feeling, but we could probably have a bit more activity while still keeping that feeling.
100k monthly active users would allow most of the communities promoted on [email protected] to have more than one or two regular posters
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That was just rules to make it work on the technical side - you're not helping the user experience if you have to wait half a day until someone manually approves your registration.
The rest would need to be discussed and actually thought out (and agreed upon with Lemmy devs, who own the join-lemmy domain).
I haven't given it much thought because I see no point if it never gets implemented.
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Its best if you improve the existing site, that way you dont have to worry about hosting, or directing users to your new site.
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Same. I still occasionally browse Reddit, but I have a rule that I don't post or comment there. I do post and comment here.
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Also remember to be nice. I see heated arguments regressing into ad hominems by the third comment pretty regularly. We can be better than Reddit
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I definitely plan to read the Silmarillion, because the history of middle earth sounds so interesting.
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Didn't be so hard on yourself. You can also pester us about the status of Jira tickets.
