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I say let them try the website themselves. If they liked using that website, then it's okay. If they don't like it then it's okay too, maybe they'll try lemmy out.
A comment saying
Currently has 15 votes, while my comment suggesting people to try Lemmy as it's bigger is down to 2.
I'm not sure if Lemmy just has a very bad reputation over there in general, or if Discuit people are brigading the comments
Reddit could be manipulating votes that mention Lemmy, or otherwise shadowbanning mentions of it.
It could be that a first glance at lemmy is total shit. The "front page" is a hot mess, half in German with piles of pervy anime and Linux posts. It might be hard to believe, but not everyone likes that stuff. It takes heavy curating to get a moderately personally interesting feed and very few people are going to do that.
Exactly this. Lemmy isnt that great if you're not into few specific topics. My ban/blacklist is HUGE. It took a ton of work to make it so every other post isn't anime porn/fantasy fulfillment and suggestions to switch to Linux. If I'm being honest I still browse reddit in an app because otherwise I've run out of things to see on Lemmy in about 20 minutes each day.
It is interesting how people get different results. My process has been to simply block a user or instance when it's obvious nothing from there will ever be interesting to me. I haven't had to do that a lot though, and I don't see any of what you suggest. Then again, while I see mostly Lemmy content, I use Mbin, so perhaps that's part of it as well. Some instances might preblock better than others.
I do think the learning curve is higher than traditional social media. Not that it's hard, but the average person wants a plug and play without having to do anything. The caveat of having a preset curation of "safe" feed is that most people don't explore past that, and it's the random stuff that wanders in that makes things more interesting.
But that's just it, "Lemmy's" front page isn't like that. There's no "Lemmy" front page. There's a thousand different ones.
Reddit is a website. Lemmy is a potentially unlimited, constantly changing, number of websites. They're not directly comparable.
I just opened the following instances without being logged on
The same posts are there. You would only get a very different All feed on something like https://beehaw.org, but they are quite unique in that regard.
That's a valid point. We should probably get a Chill feed, and as much as some people would hate to not see news, politics and tech in there, that could help.
A small list I just curated that could be in there