What ways do you know to attract users?
Perhaps there are those here who have been with Lemmy since its inception. It’s interesting to hear your experience in promoting your community or instance.
What ways do you know to attract users?
Perhaps there are those here who have been with Lemmy since its inception. It’s interesting to hear your experience in promoting your community or instance.
English or not, I think the default Lemmy UI scares away casual users. They don’t want to try out several alternate web UIs for a community they’re not yet invested in. They want a friendly-looking, easy UI out of the box, or they’ll leave.
Unpopular opinion: Lemmy should prompt people if they want to receive replies to their posts in their mailbox at signup. When you’re not yet in the habit of coming here regularly, Lemmy is easily forgotten.
Lastly, I recently heard someone say that Lemmy consists mostly of critical posts about big tech, politicians and billionaires. I find that type of content interesting sometimes, but I can see how it can be offputting. Lemmy definitely has a less positive, less casual, less diverse vibe than some other places.
What’s wrong with Lemmy UI? It has one of the best UIs in the wild…
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I think that the standard look of web UI, for people accustomed to the look of modern social networks, may not be attractive.
There’s a bit of an conflict there, because said UI appeals to old.reddit users and I’m thinking there may be a few here
I hate it a bit, its so confusing and has way too many buttons everywhere, the search hidden away etc.
https://blog.erlend.sh/lemmy-frontend-alternatives-are-popping-off
I think lots of them are better for general use, while the official one is most often the best supported. I disagree that many frontends are so great
There are alternate web UIs?
Photon: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon
Old reddit style: https://old.lemmy.world
Voyager: https://vger.app
https://blog.erlend.sh/lemmy-frontend-alternatives-are-popping-off
Alexandrite is my favorite. Can also self host it.
Out of curiosity, why would you do that when Lemmy.world already does?
If you want to use an account that’s not on lemmy.world, you can’t do that on Lemmy.world’s instance. The official alexandrite instance let’s you use any instance.
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I don’t understand how I’m supposed to use it ? the read me is cryptic to me
You go to the website, log in, and use it
https://alexandrite.app
This is wrong, Lemmy consists mostly of posts talking about Reddit /s