Made a post on discuit asking what drove them away from lemmy.
Made a post on discuit asking what drove them away from lemmy.
Making discussions better while avoiding enshitification
most of the replys seem to be, "it's too hard/confusing to sign up" we won't get these people to sign up anyways
or "I didn't like the culture there" and fair enough, lemmy is pretty crazy, but that's why I like it
It's a mess, but it's our mess
most of the replys seem to be, "it's too hard/confusing to sign up" we won't get these people to sign up anyways
I often see people on Reddit saying they had issues with the confirmation email, definitely something for instance admins to look into
and I think Lemmy now allows resending so that's good
Interesting to get some alternate perspectives from one of the most successful (relatively speaking) non-fediverse Reddit alternatives. It could provide insight into where Lemmy could improve.
I don't think it's worth spending effort convincing them to switch to Lemmy, though. They're happy where they are. Convincing Reddit users to switch is a much more effective use of our efforts.
Lemmy gained
over 2000new users in the past two weeks, which is ~10x Discuit's MAU.Edit: Possibly not actually 2000, as there is a discrepancy between the stats on join-lemmy.org and fediverse.observer. Still likely in the high hundreds, though.
Seems like people prefer small communities. Kind of the Beehaw effect
I still think the fediverse in general works for that, with white-list federation.
I think so too but I also like, don't really care. Isolated communities of isolationist people are less consequential and ultimately conflict with the whole purpose of the Fediverse which is connection with others and individual sites cooperating to create a larger space. They don't want that and that's okay, they shouldn't be encouraged to join us if they don't want to, since they wouldn't offer us anything worth while and wouldn't get anything out of it themselves. Very similar to Beehaw, though the difference there is that Beehaw wanted to cooperate but brought isolation upon themselves when they killed their own network effect by shutting out the most active people posting in their communities.
That doesn't mean they aren't welcome here if they want to but no one should go and beg or encourage them to join like we do people on Reddit.
As a self instance owner, I agree connecting to other instances communities is not really easy. I need to search for each community I want seperately, then subscribe to them one by one. Some sort of community discovery option would be really helpful.
Have you considered enrolling to https://lemmy-federate.com/ ?
just heard it from you, I guess I'll give it a shot.
If you own your instance and you are the only account then yeah you will need to do everything yourself.
On instance with several users, every does a bit of discovery so you will get a steady flow of new subs as they get popular.
Most people there expect Lemmy and decentralized platforms in general to just work as their centralized counterparts, it seems.
That is the problem and they refuse to fix it.