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@[email protected] , could you maybe edit your comment to something like
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
join-lemmy isn't the best for user onboarding: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536?scrollToComments=true
also what's the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you're putting too many choices lol
didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
That's my biggest beef. But I think maybe it's "ugly like a Mazda truck", as in, it's plain and weird until you get to driving it and then it's just simple and great.
That's my hope anyway.
Misskey's probably the most polished feeling, though under the hood it's apparently a total mess.
Honestly I think the answer is BlueSky. For all the problems that people have with it, it's going to be much more successful in getting people off the Nazi platforms. What's more X->BlueSky->Mastodon seems easier than X->Mastodon for most people.
I would help, but I honestly don't have the password anymore. I don't think I signed up with an email, but if I did it was a dummy one. I wish I could help.
Edit: Also, I didn't know about this bridge for Mastodon:
if you want your Mastodon posts to also show on Bluesky then use this bridge https://fed.brid.gy/ you only need to follow the account @[email protected] (~~note: is this a typo?~~ It is not a typo. It will follow you back and make sure to accept the follow) and it will automatically bridge you
the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I've only tried it with Mastodon)
Do you know how I connect Pixelfed to Mastodon too? Or is it automatic and I just do search maybe?
yea it should just be a matter of searching your username, but you need to be logged in to search remote instances (they don't want anonymous requests spamming the network)
what's your Pixelfed username? I can pull it up if you want
Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go. It's great that we can link to bluesky but not necessarily be a part of them.
On another note, don't you think it's a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances? I'm not sure I understand bringing them up in the first place.
On another note, don’t you think it’s a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances?
Where is that comment? I didn't see it. Maybe they're thinking back when it was really hard to get new communities federated, but it's not so bad these days, and even the medium sizes instances already have tons of communities already federated.
anyways I think we should've give people too much trouble as long as they're joining the Fediverse lol, they can move instances as they get a feel for it
I've personally had an issue with a world admin in the past, that's why I picked up on it. I don't seem to be having as much issues lately, so maybe they've chilled. It's the advertising part that kind of bugs me for their instance instead of Lemmy in general:
Really if you're telling someone about it, you just tell them one of the bigger, better instances. Don't send them to that "pick a server" thing. I don't know if I'm allowed to link it here, but the name of the software and the word "world" with a period in between is a fine server for both Lemmy and Mastodon.
I went from a heavy, daily reddit user to making half a dozen comments here in a year. All my activity is now over there, outside of search results.
It's by u/Serinus
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
The idea of picking a bigger server is better for new people, but idk how I feel about them advertising only their server.
The average person hits a server choice and gives up so it probably does help add more people.
but idk how I feel about them advertising only their server.
That's exactly the part. If they had said pick a bigger server, than I would have been 100%.