I just say lemmy comm, or just comm

Visual novel gameplay

Clearly not a programmer

I’ll enjoy following my favourite artists on Threads from the comfort of Mastodon when they’re federated 🗿

Threats

You must be my sleep paralysis demon

Alot of them are moving though thanks to twitter repeatedly fucking up, I’ve been seeing some artists and such on mastodon recently that were only on twitter before.

People just need to spread the word; there isn’t a marketing campaign or anything for the fediverse after all.

Mastodon is already pretty active, and is also part of the fediverse

Peertube, but it’s extremely small right now.

Odysee is bigger, but it’s not federated

Come on man I’m trying to sleep 😢

!outoftheloop@lemmy.world

There is no ‘main’ website. It’s all connected. People just started joining that because it’s big and overloaded it, and now it’s having federation and stability issues.

This is just a pro-smoking ad

They’d of course be able to select instances, I just meant having a random good one selected by default when registering.

By good I mean one that’s not too massive, isn’t defederating popular instances, and isn’t a questionable one that’s likely to be defederated itself.

And I don’t think they should explain too much, new users are easily scared away.

That’s another thing. People need to stop recommending the massive servers and recommend smaller ones like vlemmy.net, lemmy.one or lemm.ee instead, at lest until lemmy’soptimized for user counts of this scale. Those servers have also been upgraded for the surge of users after all, and everything’s connected anyway.

In fact, I think lemmy clients should go as far as to assign new users randomly to good general servers like these upon registration so they don’t even have to know about instances; would make the onboarding much better

This seriously needs to implemented in lemmy already. Not being able to see the true member count/activity of all communities is a massive blow to discoverability and very anti-ux, and likely the biggest hurdle for newcomers.

Memmy is great too, and also on both Android and iOS

You do have to build it yourself for Android right now though, hope it’ll be on the playstore soon.

More effective would just be making the site easier to use for newcomers, particularly tackling the onboarding and community discoverability.

Some straightforward ways I can think of would be apps assigning users randomly to a good general instance (like lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, or lemmy.one) that isn’t extremely overloaded when registering

and integrating lemmyverse.net’s functionality into lemmy itself, cuz not being able to see a list of all communities and their true member count/activity in Lemmy itself is a huge blow to user experience.

wefwef and Memmy almost feel like Apollo already; it’s crazy how fast they’re being developed.