This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.
Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.
What can we do?
This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.
Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.
What can we do?
But the crux is which one do you recommend? We don’t want to send everyone to the same instance otherwise it’ll end up becoming dominant (see Lemmy World).
Ideally we shouldn’t need to go through this motion of trying to work out which instance to choose or recommend one for them, they should be able to do that themselves after getting their feet wet.
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.
"Lemmy has 47k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
For the rationale: https://feddit.uk/post/23882306
I think a good solution would be to randomly send people to one of the top 5 instances that aren’t very political (What ever that might be)
According to https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy, the top 5 (where top 5 is defined by user count) are:
After there’s:
Lemmy.world is pretty safe and generic, but it’s already huge (173k users vs 33k of lemm.ee).
Lemm.ee is also a safe bet.
Hexbear is totally out of question
dbzer0 is great, but it leans heavily in a political direction
Federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
https://feddit.uk/post/23882306
So that basically just leaves lemmy.world :|
I guess the question is: what’s more important: trying to avoid putting most users on a single instance, or just accept that people are going to see some hexgrad nonsense in their feeds?
Only if you want top 10 instances.
sopuli.xyz and discuss.online both defederate hexbear and lemmygrad, are reliable and established
They are my recommendations nowadays
https://feddit.uk/post/23882306