Lemming (verb): the act of doing lemmy Lemm-on (noun): having erected lemmy. So only instance owners can be called lemmons. The correct term for the rest of us is: Lemmer (noun): someone who does lemmy
I'll never forget my father's last words to me just before he died
"Are you still holding the ladder?"
Huh! Didnt know Lemmy would put me as the poster and remove any trace of original OP when cross-posting! That's not great! Anyway OP for this is @Zeerooth
My daughter is into astronomy these days. She asked me "how do stars die?"
I said “its usually an overdose.”
Yes memmy is great. The dev is updating it almost 2-3 times a day to get it working! There was another one (mlem?) but last i heard there was some disagreements between the dev and community and it was pulled with plans for it to be continued by someone else. I never tested it (beta was full) so not sure if it was better or worse than memmy. All I know is I am typing this from Memmy and couldn’t be happier with it.
I realize you are asking books and not necessarily audiobooks but for audiobooks I follow a few good narrators that I know only do books I will like. This way I am almost always guaranteed a good book, and as a bonus I already know the narration quality will be perfect.
I agree that its very confusing especially since thats the “default” top community recommended when posting, and has the same name as the entire instance so sounds like its a general discussion community when in fact its reserved for admin announcements. But at the same time I think everyone (including @Ruud and others) are on a learning curve so i don’t think you should take it personally. We’ll all figure things out soon :)
My [paranoid] take: its vaporware designed to distract from the reddit fiasco, with plans fo mr meta to later absorb reddit instead of a reddit IPO. Reddit users are very different than Twitter users; the mass exodus didn’t happfrom Twitter to Mastodon, but looks very promising from reddit to lemmy/kbin. And it takes only one social media giant to crumble for the rest to follow. Once people are on Fediverse there is no going back
True but reddit couldn’t get a video player to work for a decade and it was fine 😂 Joking aside though, I think it goes both ways. Lemmy and others have had so many improvements in a matter of days because of necessity. (Eg the iOS app gets 1-2 updates a day, something that didn’t even exist a couple of weeks ago). So the more people join the faster the updates are and the better the services will be. So I do think active recruitment of people who are less tech savvy is to everyone’s benefit in the end. Advertising may be a stupid idea but I’m wondering what else we can do besides word of mouth (especially those of us who don’t have the know-how to participate in the actual dev process)
Exactly! But i don’t think word of mouth is enough. Also i think timing matters too; right now there are a lot of people potentially looking for options, but if you google “reddit alternatives” it brings upnonsense articles about how lemmy is not ready yet etc
Fair points. Mentioning lemmy.world was just a little bit of “instance pride”! But my main argument is that the majority of people currently coming to lemmy seem to be tech savvy and/or have already been on fediverse. And leaving the rest of the users behind wont work. Many of the greatest contributors to reddit had non-tech specialties that were valuable for commenting on specific topics (eg law, medicine, civil engineering, etc.). I have been wondering how we can show these people that lemmy is not as terrifyingly complex as they make it sound to be.
I wish we could advertise lemmy.world!
We are at the cusp of becoming the #1 Lemmy instance, which is very exciting. But I wish there was a better way of informing casual users about lemmy and how easy it is to join and use. I don't think most people need to (or want to) know the intricacies of the Fediverse, but it sounds overwhelming and complicated to them, and as a result they won't even give it a try, when in fact joining lemmy.world to post on c/cats is no more complicated than doing it on r/cats. I wish we could put ads on YouTube, or on on a billboard or something to tell them/show them that! Lemmy (and Fediverse) will only truly be successful if/when the casual users join.
Just wanted to say thank you for your hard work on this. Btw I am replying with Memmy 😁
As a reddit refugee it feels great to see Lemmy grow, and even better when you’re on the winning instance!! :)