How can we make it more popular?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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I have been pretty comfortable here because I'm into nerdy things and most of us here are nerds. In fact, the only people that cared about reddit locking down the API were nerds or people jumping on the bandwagon because it was the next big thing. Others didn't care and just wanted reddit back and a lot of people that were here in the beginning went back to reddit. We will probably grow overtime but there's no point in wondering why lemmy isn't more popular, just participate in the communities you like.
Yeah. It just feels like we need about 50% more users to help populate things a bit more here. Mastodon feels much more active/full to me, probably because it has a year or so already, and Xitter has done some many things to help drive people to alternatives.
I'm pretty happy with Lemmy as it is, but would certainly welcome another influx of people
100% agree.
And a lot of people are happy/used to be smashed with Ads...
I tried participating and got this bs: "As it is, your post is off topic and not understandable to most community subscribers."
I think we can and should nerd the shit out of this.
A good nerd can understand why a space is appealing to nerds but less to others, and adjust it accordingly to fix that.
Let's move this tech from "it works great if you know how to use it" to "it's great and I have no idea how it works". Remove server talk from https://join-lemmy.org/. Auto-assign instance for newcomers so they don't need to care. Make switching instances easy and seemless so it does not matter they did not care. Make links and IDs work cross-instance out of the box. Complete documentation (there's a wiki which could use some love). Things like that. Improve user experience until using something else feels like a pain.
I overall completely agree with your comment, just wanted to nitpick on this one "no point" point. I think this is important, even for the nerds.