Hi! In thinking about how to help the fediverse grow, I wonder if there are more mainstream Lemmy instances?
I’ve pointed a couple folks to Lemmy.world and it’s uhhh, pretty hard Left for them (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said “I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.”) We’re much farther Left than reddit which itself was definitely Left of centre…
I don’t know if decentralized open source social media actually attracts many mainstreamers but assuming we want to grow the fediverse, I’d like to have somewhere I can point people to without feeling very nervous for them.
Thanks!
You are the first that makes this association, at least that I know of.
Communick is rooted on “Communication”, “nickname” and “unique”: because the original idea was that people that sign up to the service get an unique username across all instances…
Actually that was my instinctual thought as well. Though, I might be primed as a result of some of the responses.
Sorry, it wasn’t clear to me. Are you saying that your first association of the name Communick is with “Communism”?
Admittedly, I had communism on the mind but it’s two letters apart… And in the context of taking on corpo social media… I dunno. Again, I was primed but that was my immediate assumption. (Though, you know what they say about assumptions.)
Yep me too
I’m making a poll on Mastodon to see if it’s a matter of sample bias.
https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/113879891465168070
Add me to the list. Not helped by the fact that “-ik” is a common russian suffix.
To my American eyes and English speaking self, I assumed it was associated with communism. (I don’t think it’s bad or anything.)
I’m finding it incredibly ironic. Mine is the only instance that is unashamedly for-profit and access is only for paying customers…
Honestly, I got also the impression that Communick was about communism, not communication. I just never felt I needed to state it anywhere.
Looks like I need to improve the marketing and messaging…
See that “grayed out” SIP part? That’s what was meant to be my first actual service, but I can not afford to offer SIP until I consistently hit ~$1000/month in revenue.