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we need more users (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong.

the way it's going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.

So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.

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[–] 30 points 7 months ago (6 children)

too complicated

This is an Us problem. Download jerboa. Create an account on world. Done. Simple as Reddit. We make it complicated by explaining federation, options, different instances, etc. None of that matters to the masses.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    This. So much of this.

    I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and... Shut the fuck up.

    App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.

    People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    We can make our decentralised network more popular by centralising it feels like an own goal...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It depends what you want. If you want lots of people to join, you need to make it easy to join.

    That doesn't mean we need to get rid of decentralization. You could have a federated joining mechanism that assigned people randomly to any willing instance. Forcing the user to pick is the problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    I followed the directions my instance of choice had posted, also use jerboa. It was a few steps, but the directions given were simple. It didn't take me long at all to sign up.

    I still don't fully understand federation, but I knew even less when I began here a few years ago. I do like using jerboa

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I could not find Jerboa in the App Store. I use Voyager. We need Lemmy.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is such an underrated point. If we want people to join Lemmy, we need an app called Lemmy, on every platform. And if we want to steal users from Reddit, make the UI a clone of the reddit app but better. And allow people to join via the app, not some separate website.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Or maybe people just need to stop saying "Lemmy" and instead say "Voyager", or "Boost for Lemmy" or whatever app they would suggest to use?

    It's like Linux, I don't suggest people to install Linux because that's not a thing, I suggest they install Bazzite or Fedora KDE, or whatever I think will suit them best

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Most people would see "use Voyager or boost" to be akin to "use Reddit or Instagram". Because why would there be more than one app to connect to the app.

    It's wrong, but any time you break from a standard assumption you require thinking. Once you require thinking, you lose anyone who isn't otherwise motivated.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Yea true.

    I didn't mean you should tell people "use Voyager or Boost for Lemmy"

    I meant you should tell people "use Voyager" or "use Boost for Lemmy" or whatever app you think they would like, but just 1

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