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Post with 22k upvotes mentions Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit (old.reddit.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Sunshine to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Are admins seeing an increase in applications? This seems fairly big!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I am here due to the post. So there is that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Welcome :) feel free to ask questions on [email protected]

[–] Sunshine 13 points 3 months ago

It looks there’s a recent surge for Lemmy.ca 👀

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Dbzer0 admin here. I've definitely noticed an increase in "spam" applications. Mostly stuff with applications that are blatantly wrong. Like just saying "yes" (multiple applications just had this???), "GOOGLE", an ad (to us) and one time, somebody literally just copy and pasted our own text to us (image below)

Though i've noticed a lot of good users applying too, coming from reddit. I think dealing with spam is fine if it means we get a lot of new users, and a fresh perspective to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Btw congrats on getting picked for admin!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you 😊

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

StarTrek.website typically sees 1-2 (approved) registrations per day. We have 12 approved in the past 48 hours.

[+] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Let’s keep guiding them to better UX

I've been trying the Photon/Voyager approach, the issue is that some people despise Photon and modernist interfaces with a passion, there's a comment on that thread I had to link to old.lemmy.zip

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't get why someone would hate Photon. It's a great interface, beautifully constructed and organized. Overall, great to use.

Wait, are you the real Blaze?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interface are always a very debatable topic.

Well, yes, I mean I'm the one people usually see around here, not sure if that's what you mean by "the one"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nevermind. I was using a different app so I didn't recognised you.

[–] Sunshine 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You watch Jehtt too? Amazing guy! I used to help with captions to his channel. Too bad the Discord server for that died…

[–] Sunshine 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Heck yeah his videos always had me laughing on the floor I loved the one where knuckles brought in a knock off sonic and Silver yelled at him 🤣

Aw dang that’s too bad about the discord server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"Can I be real with you?" "Sure." "Thanks." - 🦔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been focused lately on changing some UI aspects of Photon to please both sides, compact mode is now comparable to old reddit (while looking good) and it's the default. People who like them can switch to the cozy interface on their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Great!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't disagree at all, but I also think it's important to keep the conversation focused on the benefits. eg: "I'm happy to trade Reddit's UI for a platform that doesn't encourage toxic behavior" (and so on).

EDIT: The threadiverse will not ever be Reddit and we won't be able to please everyone, I think it's important to portray confidence in the platform and not get bogged down defending the (less important) flaws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Personally, I'm OK with technical hurdles like "not using .com like a normal website" keeping the people who think any website domain should be .com off the platform.

Reddit got worse as it got more popular. Especially once it crossed the threshold of being popular enough to be worth investing time and money into making bots that could be easily confused with normal people, whether for advertising, scamming, or disinformation purposes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I would agree with the bad UX point. But I totally disagree on the "lemmy.com" URL. The instance thing isn't really hard to understand, all I had to do was to search for a tutorial that was available on GitHub. This person seems to be raging too hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let's keep guiding them to better UX

Like PieFed's:-)

[+] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

None, that's the main issue. They are working on a Thunder fork

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think PieFed has mobile apps yet, but I believe they're planning on forking Thunder for Lemmy.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For recommendations to people on Reddit, PieFed's app support is "coming soon", but if you want more details personally, they are here.

Edit: Also, PieFed has a number of features that make it work more like the Voyager app than the Lemmy web UI, e.g. the Tile view. I also like how PieFed makes the community side-bar text so readily visible, placing it below every single post (like if you were going to reply you'd be on that page), in contrast to Voyager or Lemmy web UI where you first have to navigate to the community page and then ask for the side-bar to be displayed. Nothing is perfect ofc, but there are a number of ways that using PieFed in a browser is very much like or even better than (some? I have only tried Voyager iirc) Lemmy apps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some users want apps, and it's a strict requirement. I don't get it, but they are quite vocal about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hey, Firefox (& even Chrome) is an app!:-P

Do you have any sense as to how true that holds for the actual content creators? I suppose at some point it may not matter, if e.g. they go where the users are.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Excellent!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Nice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks for posting. I Ctrl+F'd that thread for Lemmy and did what I could. Hope we managed to reach some new people :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Great image, saving that. Stuff like Lemmy will need to be brought up repeatedly for it to stick in people's minds and an image post makes that easier.