Founded slrpnk.net, now exploring other paths :)
I think people are retreating more and more into chat groups. Those people are not on reddit anymore, they are probably in discord related to certain products hobbies etc.
I really wonder how long until we will start seeing the effects of not having more updated general knowledge in the public web, but oh well 🤷
On a side note, after all, the web always had a bias and a lot of fields never had easily available public discussions…
I would rework the other stuff, like the whole branding because all that hacker green doesn’t help in feeling the communities. And the images for the same reason… Also there are some features that are worthless listing like “you can have an avatar”
Also the censorship thing…
Let’s say that the homepage kinda reflects the state of lemmy people as a group right now and it’s not so nice imo
Focussing on being a clean forum with nested answers and human curated algorithm and idk, just pointing some low hanging fruits
On a side note I wonder if having the page as onboarding for users instead of explaining the software is the right target. Ideally it should be communities trying to outreach to have people on their servers, not the software asking to join people who use the software (?)
But I digress.
On a marketing level point of view, while we are clearly the small fish, it’s not bad to leverage being enemies of Reddit. Like in the past we’ve seen much more Apple vs Microsoft while now they ignore each other.
“Reddit if was not owned by venture capitalists who keep ruining your life” lol (too long)
Anyway, is there any kind of data to know if people actually join lemmy by joinlemmy site?
A community poll for Lemmy users would be good.
Mastodon also got the rss for user’s media, useful to follow artists
As for Reddit, go away from the main subs
unluckily niches are not yet developed enough but still better than nothing and you can help with posting
Not having admins spamming would already solve half of that issue lol
To use bonfire, to be even more local (me and the other admin actually live in the same province) and because apparently my social circles are too attached to telegram to post in the open web questions that they can make in our shared groups
Oh and because the main community that should have moved changed idea, so no more being the focal point for political organization in the Italian landscape
Also there is a bug in my ear that keeps repeating that we should just embrace this dark forest internet moment and hide in chat groups like everyone else
AniSocial got the same issues as EuropePub: ton of noise, 0 purposes and discussion.
Even just having the thread to discuss latest one piece chapter would be enough
I made a telegram group to have similar results but it’s still a bit annoying that no one in the open social world wants to fight the trend of hiding into chat groups e-e
yep, we have tons of news posting but few discussion i agree
Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse
Other similar servers yes, more themed ones i don’t think so…
what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse
Ye that’s a problem. Marketing as in market of mental space not as in ‘‘buy this one’’
someone jumped the gun on community creation
Yep, exactly why i feel hesitant partecipating in some subs :o
You are right that problably there is not enough interest, but not that someone shouldn’t try anyway u.u
Kinda agree but I’m not so sure about the egg or the chicken first
Belonging is very important and there is clearly a dominant techie culture in generalistic instances right now
slrpnk is a themed instance 😃 (also lemmini, even tho we may close it soon and then make a very local one)
I made the list for “hey look there are opportunities if you want the threadiverse to shine”
No pressure
No but forums work (or don’t if not shared enough) because they have a purpose
With too many generalistic instances you get:
@[email protected] someone in the GUI should be stated that you need to allowlist gui.fediseer.com to ensure the functionalities u.u
Solved by allowlisting it
Ye I was not finding it but it’s probably because maybe without federation the setting doesn’t pop up :)
In order from little to bigger:
Gandi got sold 2 times
Basically the company went from “no bullshit” to “just another asset for some capitalist fund who only cares about extracting as much value as possible”
It would be so good to have a no profit owned or cooperative European domain seller
Wow these were a lot of questions :D
Ahah, y e s
Thank you for the answers, I’ll avoid answering back to not make a mess u.u
I already hide them and my ego is already not touched by downvotes :P
I explained in another comment why I think they are deleterious nonetheless
It’s not about me, it’s about social dynamics :)
That’s not happening to me… I’ve installed it from brew and there is no need for me to do anything weird except the occasional “this app was downloaded from internet so you allow it” when updating from brew (stuff that gets updated natively doesn’t even ask this)