Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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I think the verifcation question might trip ppl up, just not used to needing one or it being an actual answer, or copying and pasting for it, I signed up for a few and each time I felt like I was doing it wrong
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whoa bro chill with the fascism /s
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Its annoying but I also like it, you get different viewpoints and if you look at the feeds the focusses are usually different, like one might have mostly news and trailers, the other mostly discussions on questions, there are like 10 different shows movies tv communities
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Lemmy doesn't need low bar registrations. Lemmy will grow slowly without the immaturities and the to pompous class.
People will build apps and make lemmy more "fun"
Corporate social media is easy because it keeps the ad clickers there. Do we really want that environment here?
All the quality (non bait clicking content suppliers) will come here and all the spam artists will stay over there.
Just let Lenny grow organically with a little barrier to climb and we'll be alright
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Pot, meet kettle.
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People like that weren't going to add meaningfully to any discussion either way, if they flake that easily they were planning on lurking and likely wouldn't have commited to using this app over reddit, I was one of them til I got perm banned. I definitely preferred reddit because I had karma, over decade old accound so I could post wherever and had "credibility" in my head lol. Almost joined mbin before I realized I don't want user karma anymore. I do like post and comment upvotes/downvotes
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Some apps kinda let you do this
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I pay 7$ monthly for 8 core 16gb ram littlecreek, yunohost for free, installed lemmy on it, works solid, use like 10% of the resources with friendica also on the server lol That site looks insanely expensive monthly.
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Like I genuinely hope you dont pay that much littlecreek (im same dude as other comment) has a 3.50 deal for 4 core 4gb ram on lowendtalk, more than enough to run lemmy for yourself
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You'd get an email address from your ISP. Early on you'd just dial the ISP, send/receive email, and then automatically hang up. College freshmen were assigned a school email address.
Eventually, "web mail" became popular because you could log in from any computer, like at the library.
By the time email became unavoidable, everyone had already been assigned at least one email address. It was seen as a major feature of the internet itself.
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I looked this up when joining a month ago because I saw hella posts on it and joining world to not see the piracy community didnt help
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Idk why anyones upset about ppl who prefer new reddit not wanting to be here, exact type of person who should stay there
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It makes a difference if you signed up for the only instance early on, and now everyone assumes you're a tankie.
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Then I guess make sure you don't talk to yourself.
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Exactly, I feel the mindset of 'line must go up or you die' is really ingrained in people's minds. Even if everyone leaves for something else lemmy will still be here, slowly getting better with updates and time.
Doesn't matter how many people use it. As long as even 1 person wants to use lemmy it will be here...
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Lemmy UX is identical to old Reddit. Come on.
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thats topics lol, piefed and mbin
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Yeah, people actively surrounding one water cooler aren't likely to go across the room to a different water cooler with no one there to start a new community. There's a lot of mental and social effort required there.
In the news in tech communities the moderation was becoming oppressive. If someone pisses all over the water cooler, then people are a lot more likely to change it up.
We see the same thing in the niche video gaming communities.
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It's not minescule. I remember actually taking days because I don't understand where and how to. You're a good person I can tell so stop being elitist as fuck it's childlike