Reddit never had to compete with a musician in search results.
The description as a ‘link aggregator’ on the fediverse page is holding it back.
Yeah for sure, what is a link agrigater?
Something ornery cause of all them teeth
Link Alligator would actually be a fun name
Things we have no interest in changing. The topics of the most popular threads (linux, privacy, open source, niche diy, programming), the makeup of the communities (occupation, gender, political alignment, etc.), non-mainstream opinions (privacy, dangers of AI, how to best spend one’s time).
Lemmy will never grow as it stands. The public won’t change and neither will we. Our best shot is to pitch it to somewhat technically minded folks while could operate an instance if it is set up for them. Most of us could do this pretty easily with Ansible.
The harder part is the pitch. ESPECIALLY when persuading someone to manage an instance, we need to lighten any of the opinions in the first paragraph. Something we don’t historically do very well.
We also need to make things more “fun/useful”. Sports trivia, more cat/animal memes, substantially less cynical comics/more “funny ones”, more mainstream hobby communities (e.g. cooking, rock climbing, active D&D), random/communities with no “real purpose”, communities for differently abled/neurodivergent folks with a large enough user base to provide real support.
Creature comforts. A lot of people are going to find Lemmy to be primative. Something we take for granted is we will happily embrace something “inferior” but belonging to us rather than the bleeding edge proprietary offerings. I’ve come to find I “love” my freedom oriented software and hardware to the point I don’t even care if it shits the bed. It’s like my puppy. Sure it will do things I don’t like, but I’m patient with it. Most normies won’t feel that way. We’d need to polish and grow the code base to include the things people expect in a modern app, but most of us don’t have the skill or the time. And these additions may be things we don’t want anyway
I don’t see this as insurmountable. Less so as folks are becoming more aware of the invasive nature of AI. We just need to balance that et. al with the above.
I am uncertain what I want. I kinda like what lemmy is now. I don’t really want it to become mainstream. On the other hand I want the corporations to fail and lemmy is the best chance we have.
there is plenty of cooking and cat pics on lemmy and an entire instance dedicated to tabletop RPGs
I don’t doubt it, to the extent some want more people on lemmy, do you think what we have is sufficient in quality or quantity in the eyes of those who we would attract? That was my point
some would prefer the limited growth.
i picked moist because who the fuck would want to market that
Are you a “Dead like me” fan? Its the code word you set up to let your family know your not dead yet.
nooope first ive heard of it! interesting
Its a world where the clean up of souls is differed to designated souls who for one reason or another can’t pass on. These souls are given a new body and are assigned to a cell to replace the one who reaped them. They are told a location, a time, and a name. And have to find the person about to die and pull the soul out before they are killed, else the soul brings the trama of death over with them. In the protagonists case she is put in the “freak accident death” group. Which reap people who are indirectly killed by demons mostly. It’s forbidden to reach out to your family for obvious reasons, but due to her mother HATING the word “moist” and considering it a sex slur, she leaves behind a message saying just that and the mother instantly catches on.
i will check it out, thanks!
I love that show. I just started rewatching it, after rewatching Coupling. Giving me all the nostalgia.
freakin canada
Well, there is that one guy…
Charles Boyle?
Von Lipwig?
For some reason I thought of Critical. The YouTuber. Charlie? penguinz? Or whatever the fuck he calls himself these days. Then I remembered he doesn’t sing…
Greatest and best name ever.
What’s holding it back is not having a button to filter out all the US drama. Eternity had it, but that app isn’t working anymore.
Hmm so use it in the browser? Lemmy has a pretty terrible web UI, like forgetting where it was when I press back.
You can filter it in the apps.
I’ve just looked at Jerboa, Voyager and Raccoon and none of those have content filtering.
You can’t have looked hard as it’s a top level setting on voyager lol
How hard can you look?
The developer says you must be logged out
I’ll try that!
https://i.postimg.cc/18dfynWw/IMG-6886.png
Weird! Mines right there. Are you on android? I’m on IOS.
That’s it
Weird that your phone doesn’t have that option.
Voyager definitely has filtering.
Eternity doesn’t work? I’m literally typing from it now…
It does? It hasn’t had an update in 5 months and that’s how long it has been broken I’d say. I guess the f Droid version is out of date then. Thx!
I think Eternity requires an instance to be running v19 of Lemmy, and Beehaw stopped at 18.x, so that’s why it doesn’t work.
Ahhh. Yah the playstore version hasn’t been updated in 5 months either.
No issues with the name. My problem is I can’t just do a simple search and add lemmy to make it search lemmy, like you can with Reddit.
Kagi has a fediverse lens that works pretty well for that.
This would change everything.
Perhaps. First name that came to me was remmy but the real nane is remy from the movie
No
musician
Who?
It’s indeed an odd name but holding it back from what ? Its not a popularoty contest . Why is “widespread adoption” seen as the metric for success? That onky needed for shitty commercial products, to me it’s great right now…
its a link aggregator based off reddit, showing up higher in the resulrs when it’s own name is googled would be nice
Eh, names may sound stupid at first, but after saying it a million times it’ll start to sound normal. “Google” sounded stupid and silly when they just first started, but now it sounds formal and makes you think of dystopia and dread.
I mean… reddit?
It’s less about how it sounds and more SEO
Just anecdotal experience to relate, but the opinion I see most commonly in various threads is that being concerned about SEO and growth metrics and the like fundamentally misunderstands the opportunity the fediverse provides.
At least for me, it’s nice to have a corner of the internet where, for the most part, discussions don’t escalate to the polemical levels that occur when everyone needs to shout to get a word in edgewise.
I admit that my logic stems from the impulse to gatekeep, but my intent would be that we tend to our gardens, as it were, and let the folks who are seeking that kind of experience filter in at a natural rate. For example, while I don’t think that Lemmy needs to juice it’s SEO, I do think it would be a good idea to continue to improve the onboarding process for folks that don’t give a rip about the tech running their social media.
I’m willing to entertain arguments to the contrary, but I think that this approach encourages growth by improving accessibility, while not overwhelming the aspects of the culture that has gotten folks to stick around here at all. The assumption I’m operating under, and I acknowledge its optimism, is that a person who finds themselves on Lemmy is clearly looking for a different experience than what traditional social media offers them, even if they can’t articulate what exactly it is that they’re missing from corporate owned platforms.
To that end, I don’t think it’s necessary to try and ensure our Lemmy beats out Lemmy Kilmeister, who is the singer I’m hopefully correct in assuming people are talking about lol
when I say ‘fediverse’ people think I’m saying ‘fetiverse’ and sometimes they ask if it’s like open source fetlife. 🫠
just tell them “yes!”. they will figure it out :-)
In my native language, fediverse translates to “fédivers” which sounds like “faits divers” the “incidents” or “'news briefs” section of a journal.
On peut faire un site “Faits divers sur le fédivers”
I have people asking if it’s a site for fans of crumbly cheese.
I do love some crumbly cheese, so I’ll allow it.
I’ve seen people ask why the Fetaverse has nothing to do with cheese
TBH the kink community has been needing a replacement for fetlife for a while
Oh my gosh, how nothing changed when all those people were getting murdered through the site? So scary!
When I mention the Fediverse to my gf she thinks I am talking about the “Fedeverso” an allusion to “Fedelobo” a Mexican YouTuber who looks a lot like a lot of Mexicans (hence the “Fedeverso”) I don’t blame her lol.
The Fetaverse. Only Greek cheese.
Whenever I see’fediverse’ I still think it has something to do with Roger Federer.
Better than people assuming it’s a joke about it being full of feds, which I’ve seen before.
Maybe, but it would be hard to pivot at this point. There’s other things that would be a way better use of dev time.
Not as much as Loops probably.
Searching for any information regarding Loops is great way to show off the importance of SEO
What is loops? That video hosting site I sometimes see linked on Lemmy?
It’s a TikTok-like from the creator of Pixelfed (Instagram-like). It’s in beta right now. There are a few communities on Lemmy that are dedicated to sharing the content from it.
Oh neat. Yeah I think I’ve seen content from it, but I always interpreted it as just a video host, like Gfycat was, or how catbox is sometimes used.
Lemmy needs better marketing. The name is lame an non-descriptive of what it is. The UI, while awesome to the tech savvy is not modern enough to compete with alternatives. For Lemmy to succeed it has to become “cool” and it’s not there yet and seems to lack that sort of direction.
“A MUSICIAN”???
You put some respect on Lemmy Kilmisters name, sir.
Finally a man of culture
