this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federated your community to a lot of instances
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Experience for someone joining today and almost leaving Lemmy altogether because the instance they picked was laggy and not federating properly
I am aware of the way to solve the issue, but expecting a new joiner who just registered on the platform to copy-paste the communities links from a third-party website to the search to fetch them is unrealistic.
This is a major issue.
New users run the gamut of tech neophyte to very old hands. Both have reasons for not wanting to do this, even more, not knowing this can be done. As part of the "old hand" crowd, frankly I don't have the time to go look for this stuff - it really needs to be upfront when you join.
I think, overall, what you're talking about is the Discovery process for a new user. And with new users being new to lemmy, they don't understand how it all works. I've yet to sign up to a new instance and have anything clarified, up front - how lemmy works, and not just "federated like email", but how your stuff isn't replicated (I get this, but most people don't automatically get the implications of "federated, like email"). Also, what communities they federate, what they block, etc, again, in detail. This isn't done because documentation is hard, no one likes to do it - I'm as guilty of this as anyone.
Getting new servers to do this would be challenging, but just like the sidebar for a community, it's really crucial.
I think you're on to a good idea.
There are a few posts on [email protected], but they are far from exhaustive, and how to get new users there automatically is another challenge.