Be the change you want to see in Lemmy
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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.
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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.
