• WintLizard@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    I think its great they are promoting Lemmy but I think the notes are unneeded. Tell people Lemmy is great, give them a recommended instance to sign up on, and stop selling. They can learn about the rest after theyve gotten their lemmylegs underneath them.

    Give them 5 extra paragraphs of caveats and people will think they are more confused than they are. I ended up on squabbles for two months after the reddit exodus because everytime Lemmy was brought up it was with a massive text wall or that one infocomic. Its free, theres no ads, and no one person owns it - thats really all you need to know to get started.

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I think the first note was fine. It’s definitely going to be a spot of confusion for a lot of people. I agree that the rest were largely unnecessary though.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Somewhat related: do we have a more up-to-date mapping between reddit <-> lemmy ?

    sub.rehab is not accepting new links, redditmigration is recommending some instances that have been abandoned or closed, etc. I have now over 4000 subreddits at https://portal.alien.top and only mapped ~150 of them. If none of these mapping projects are going to be maintained, perhaps I should a similar functionality to fediverser itself?

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I feel like the main missing detail is defederation but I also feel like that would confuse people not familiar with how federation works.

    • vamp07@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      My problem with mastodon is the same one I have with Twitter. It’s very easy to get up and running. You can get a feed filled with nonsense to read but if you’re actually interested in any topic, it’s really hard to get a feed that matches your interest. 

      • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        That’s why I could never get into Twitter and now Mastodon. I don’t give a shit about who posts, I only give a shit about the topic. I don’t want to follow people. I want to follow topics. And hashtags just don’t cut it.

        • muggedTassi@feddit.deEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Fully agree.
          I’m one of those people who migrated to tumblr after the Reddit exodus (tbh I did have tumblr beforehand, but my usage increased a lot when the API bullshit happened). After using it for around 10 months I’ve come to the conclusion while yes, it is good for fandom related content, memes and some other things it’s simply no replacement for reddit (it’s actually more of a replacement for my fandom instagram to me). Yeah you can follow hashtags or topics, but tumblr is too niche of a platform and a lot of the topics I care about the average tumblr user doesn’t even think of, or at least not to the extent I do.
          If you want a reddit replacement Lemmy is simply your best option. If you want a Twitter replacement then yeah, go ahead and use Mastodon.

          • ginerel@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            You can also use Friendica if you enjoy Tumblr. It has a wider degree of customization in regard to its interface, and you can also cross post or get your Tumblr feed in Friendica (provided the server you’re using has the appropriate tumblr addon).

            • muggedTassi@feddit.deEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              That looks really promising, I never heard of that before, thank you for telling me! Do you perhaps also know of any unofficial tumblr android app that lets me add two accounts/main blogs (ideally FOSS, but I’m willing to make compromises)?

      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, Mastodon is great for following people, but not wonderful for topics. I hope that Lemmy can mature to the point where it has a greater diversity of communities.

    • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      On Reddit it was actually a block that forbid people from seeing, or commenting on your stuff.

      That led to people spreading fake news and blocking people who pointed them out, so that they couldn’t get reported on following ones.

      It sucked. It’s much better like this.