On reddit, you can’t post basically anything anymore. Go to computerscience, programming, gaming/games… You can’t post ANYTHING. No matter what you post, removed… It sucks. It’s like 1% of people get to post, everyone else is muted…

But lemmy is better. Here, things are fair, there aren’t over-moderation and too many rules. How do we get people here? No one wants to join lemmy.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    62·
    3 hours ago

    I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can’t be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we’re just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won’t attract any users.

    And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.

    Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking “Next” a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
    And I’ve heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
    I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation.

    Maybe even some “Wow”-factor.

    Furthermore, maybe a bit less drama. And it has to be obvious that Lemmy is a nice place. I mean it is. But most people I’ve showed it to, didn’t notice this at first glance.

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Those are all good ideas. One comment:

      I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.

      What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        You’re right. That’s a good thing. At the same time it has a lot more “normal people” than other places on the internet, I frequent.

    • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
      52·
      3 hours ago

      join-lemmy.org should really just have a “Join Lemmy” button that load balances between whatever general-purpose instances opt-in to being defaults. Then there should be a “Wait, I care about which server I join!” button that does the existing UX flow.

      It should also default to not showing the weirder instances like hexbear or lemmygrad. That’s going to turn a lot of people off.