Post with 22k upvotes mentions Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit
Posted in r/BuyFromEU by u/lukakopajtic • 32,237 points and 1,881 comments
Thanks for posting. I Ctrl+F'd that thread for Lemmy and did what I could. Hope we managed to reach some new people :)
Great image, saving that. Stuff like Lemmy will need to be brought up repeatedly for it to stick in people's minds and an image post makes that easier.
And as usual, the top comment related to Lemmy is people complaining about bad UX
Let's keep guiding them to better UX
I don't disagree at all, but I also think it's important to keep the conversation focused on the benefits. eg: "I'm happy to trade Reddit's UI for a platform that doesn't encourage toxic behavior" (and so on).
EDIT: The threadiverse will not ever be Reddit and we won't be able to please everyone, I think it's important to portray confidence in the platform and not get bogged down defending the (less important) flaws.
Personally, I'm OK with technical hurdles like "not using .com like a normal website" keeping the people who think any website domain should be .com off the platform.
Reddit got worse as it got more popular. Especially once it crossed the threshold of being popular enough to be worth investing time and money into making bots that could be easily confused with normal people, whether for advertising, scamming, or disinformation purposes.
I would agree with the bad UX point. But I totally disagree on the "lemmy.com" URL. The instance thing isn't really hard to understand, all I had to do was to search for a tutorial that was available on GitHub. This person seems to be raging too hard.
Let’s keep guiding them to better UX
I've been trying the Photon/Voyager approach, the issue is that some people despise Photon and modernist interfaces with a passion, there's a comment on that thread I had to link to old.lemmy.zip
I've been focused lately on changing some UI aspects of Photon to please both sides, compact mode is now comparable to old reddit (while looking good) and it's the default. People who like them can switch to the cozy interface on their own.
Are admins seeing an increase in applications? This seems fairly big!
StarTrek.website typically sees 1-2 (approved) registrations per day. We have 12 approved in the past 48 hours.
Dbzer0 admin here. I've definitely noticed an increase in "spam" applications. Mostly stuff with applications that are blatantly wrong. Like just saying "yes" (multiple applications just had this???), "GOOGLE", an ad (to us) and one time, somebody literally just copy and pasted our own text to us (image below)
Though i've noticed a lot of good users applying too, coming from reddit. I think dealing with spam is fine if it means we get a lot of new users, and a fresh perspective to lemmy.
I am here due to the post. So there is that.
Welcome :) feel free to ask questions on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
It looks there’s a recent surge for Lemmy.ca 👀
Excellent!
Nice
