The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.

      • Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        1 year ago

        Never underestimate the importance of convenience and the lack of work most people will do in most circumstances— and I’m not even blaming those people. A third-party tool will never catch on the way a built-in, organic convenience will.

          • Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            I don’t mean you specifically, friend. I’m just talking about the general (but not absolute, obviously) nature of people. But yee.

        • BNEEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Hmm, would be great if there was a like a nice, accessible list of these things for new users - tools and the like - and a link to that list was available on the Sign-up screen, right across Lemmy…

          Would certainly go some way to reducing the friction between starting and knowing what you’re doing.

      • eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.siteEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Right now the process for me finding a new community is find the community, go to the search page in my browser, type in the community, search for it, wait for it to show up, and sub to it, restart my app. That sucks.

        Everyone here by now knows how to find a community. Getting to that community fucking sucks.

        • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          You left out the 20% or so chance the subscribe button just doesn’t work. Also the 30% chance you find a community with 1 active user and less than 5 posts total, none of which point to a functioning community with a slightly different name.

      • tool@r.rosettast0ned.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        just raise awareness about tools like this one https://lemmyverse.net/

        I also think that something like LCS or Lemmony should be recommended and/or included in the default Lemmy docker compose file.

        That way, when new Lemmy servers get spun up, they will automatically get seeded with content and communities from other existing Lemmy servers.