But there’s not many current users over there to answer them. If you still have a reddit account and are willing to help some folks out, please consider doing so!
But there’s not many current users over there to answer them. If you still have a reddit account and are willing to help some folks out, please consider doing so!
A huge barrier for some is picking the instance and figuring which community they should follow.
Is it though? No one waited around and avoided email because they weren’t sure which provider to use. Just make an account and go… if you hear or see other features that you want, then move.
Some instances filter which content comes through, which might concern some people. And email services offer different features these days, so people might assume the same of fediverse instances as long as we’re drawing that comparison.
I can’t see downvotes and a lemmy.world admin threatened banning me for my half of a sarcastic spat.
Instances definitely matter.
they dont know it works like email tho, thats the initial hangup, also it already has issues like lemmyworld blocking piracy instances
No, but a ton of people got AOL and Prodigy email addresses at first because they got an email address with their account.
I do think apps should default to lemmee or shitjustworks and then have an option for more savvy user to pick something else in the corner rather than giving them the option to pick immediately
Idk I think the sign up phase could be simpler. A default instance and clear short documentation upon sign up would help. I say this not for me (nerd for 30 years) but just got my partner to switch and they were resistent due to the account creation process. Maybe it’s just the extra dimensions of “picking an instance” but it is a thing and a blocker for engagement.
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
Why those two? https://sh.itjust.works/post/31492067/16218879
You’re missing the point. My comment is about induced friction causing people to walk away.
Which default instance when LW is slow for some people in the US? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36299751
And you can’t recommend an American instance to Europeans as applicable laws are different
I’m sure there’s technical things to consider here. I’d leave it to the app dev to work that out. The point being that removing that choice by default might yield more users.
I guess I had practice from picking MMO servers all these years.
Picking MMO servers, really? Which MMO is that? I’m genuinely asking - I’ve never played many MMOs, but every one that I’ve known has had a single persistent world.
That’s how it’s done with more recent ones, but older ones always had servers.
WoW for instance
Then they’re likely just auto-assigning you to a server, likely based on geographic proximity.
Figuring out which communities on which servers to subscribe to is way more important than figuring out which server to post from.
no, it does matter, because of the “local” feed.
I am in favor of creating something intermediate between “local” and “global”. For example, it should also show you a few posts of “neighboring” servers, but not so much from servers who are further removed.
But that effectively goes in the direction of creating a recommendation algorithm, which is a notoriously difficult topic, because everyone will complain about the results.
To get to that point you have to have selected an instance and then learned how it all works so IMO that’s less of a barrier for entry than it is a barrier for use
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
Why those two? https://lemmy.world/comment/14616442
I have a question.
How, if possible, can I log in to say, discuss.online above, with this account.
Or do I need to make a second account over there.
I am using the jerboa app at the moment if that helps.
Also, related, is there a way to just, use my Mastodon account, and drop this one completely?
You can’t log in from your lemmy.world account, but you can interact with it through lemmy.world as if you had an account there.
You can interact with Discuss.online communities clicking this kind of links: !AskUSA@discuss.online
Another example: !casualconversation@lemm.ee
A community with a few guides: !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
You can’t use a Mastodon account to log in to a Lemmy instance.
You can view/comment/vote on all of the content there while logged into lemmy.world. As an example, you should be able to click this !flipperzero@programming.dev and participate there. or !AskUSA@discuss.online.
I am not a fan of “microblogging”, so I am not 100% certain. I have seen a lot of posts/comments from Mastodon on lemmy instances, they are the people using hashtags.
Kbin and Mbin are Lemmy-like systems that also hooks into microblogging much easier, so you might be able to do a one account thing there much easier.
Again, not certain because microblogging is not my jam.
It seems you can’t interact using Mastodon, but you can follow Lemmy with Mastodon. Mostly just wasn’t sure because in some ways the Fediverse seems more connected and more into the idea of “follow everywhere”, but also it seems like its not quite at “one account everywhere.”