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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

About the costs - someone else said this is a feature, not a bug. :)

The idea is that the costs will keep most instances small, which is great. We dont want big instances. Thats the point of being distributed. Its just a mindset that people need to learn. Pick smaller instances you trust for better performance. You can still subscribe to anything you want from other instances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ultimately I agree with you. It's mostly going to come down to getting more people acquainted to this mindset.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I agree, and i think it will come naturally. When lemmy.ml starts to get slow due to thousands of users, then some of them will switch to a small instance and just subscribe to lemmy.ml communities from there.

Its pretty brilliant in its design, all of this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's taken me a week to figure all that out, but I think if someone explained it correctly in an infographic, that would make it much easier for people to understand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or a short like 5 minute video explaining the whole process that's easily digestible, post that shit to reddit and see how it goes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that would definitely help. It needs to be visual/infographic style. Or that guy who writes with a marker on the whiteboard and draws the infographic as the narration happens.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MinutePhysics? I think they're a whole animation company that does work like that on comission, might be getting them confused with another group though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think this idea is great but the discovery of instances for a new user is "what is the Lemmy site showing me" which is almost all larger instances.