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How many Lemmings do you know IRL? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I don't know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Any time I’ve brought it up everybody glazes over the first time I say the words “instance” or “federated.” I’ve tried the email analogy, but they lose interest immediately.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Call them "communities", not "instances", that might work better

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Perhaps there's a better term, because "communities" already means something else here. Last thing we need is another Discord-calling-groups-'servers' mess.

    "Homes" could be alright? or even "towns"?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    "Communities" would work well because most people understand that it describes a group of people with similar interests which is basically what Lemmy instances are (whereas "instance" sounds borderline meaningless to most people as if you're trying to push them onto a tech project they don't understand). The Lemmy "c/" could be called "subcommunities" or "sublemmies" or something like that which would help people who are familiar with Reddit understand what they are as well.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's an annoying stumbling block. Blue Sky "fixed" that by only having one instance.

    It feels like there should be a sign up page that just gives users a default instance (randomly selected from the top 10 maybe), to avoid the problem.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Blue Sky "fixed" that by only having one instance.

    I suppose we could "fix" it in a similar way by inviting people to a specific instance instead of pointing them at join-lemmy.org.(Although that site has improved massively since the last time I saw it.)

    Don't even mention instances or federation, just say "hey you should join me on ".

    Once they are using it, that's the first hurdle, and they'll notice pretty quickly that there are other servers that all (mostly) talk to each other.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Magic box is magic. Anything else hurts most people's brains.

    In a way, it's impressive we got this far technologically before we started losing the plot, considering we evolved for the pointy-sticks-and-fire level.

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