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Yeah, he could start with lemmy (reddit) and then branch out to tackle all the other services in the fediverse like peertube (YouTube), mastodon (Twitter), etc. Kinda like how kbin supports magazines (lemmy communities) and microblogging (mastodon) from the same site.

Sync Dev (ljdawson) is potentially looking into adding Lemmy support in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If you can, please give the reddit post some love so hopefully he sees how many of us would help support the endeavor!

Is there a way to join a yet unfederated community from my instance using Jerboa? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's the issue. It only changes the post view for now. Comments are unchanged. Thereis a fix already afaik, it just has to be merged into the codebase. It's not a big deal, these are just the early times and growing pains

Sync Dev (ljdawson) is potentially looking into adding Lemmy support in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I agree! If you can, please show the post on reddit some love so we can get exposure on it and show the dev how many people want it!

Is there a way to join a yet unfederated community from my instance using Jerboa? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope they add that feature also. Lots of features are missing from the app. I can't edit my community sidebar, appoint mods, cross post, and many more actions from Jerboa yet. Hell, we can't even change the comment text size yet. I assume it will all come with time.

Is there a way to join a yet unfederated community from my instance using Jerboa? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Use the web browser to log into your instance and do the initial subscription. It should then show in Jerboa (might take a little time)

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Sync Dev (ljdawson) is potentially looking into adding Lemmy support (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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duplicate communities on lemmy instances is not a good trend in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are early days. Competition breeds innovation. The best communities will filter to the top

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The time to streamline Lemmy onboaring is now. Let's do it like mastodon did. (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen lots of discussion on reddit of users trying to get others to join Lemmy and the prevailing reply is that it is too difficult to navigate and comprehend. Having to answer multiple questions and wait for manual verification is combersome and is limiting growth at a time when nothing should be standing in Lemmy's way. Combine this with server/instance selection analysis paralysis, and you get my point.

The linked mastodon blog post sums up my thoughts, but the TLDR is essentially this:

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't let dreams of decentralization interfere with the greater goal of achieving the network effect.

We should all be telling people to go to lemmy.ml and sign up. The devs should be too, and they should rethink/remove the questions and waiting period. Hell, just put a captcha. Discussions about servers and analogies to email as an example of federated service we all already use is a waste of breath. We shouldn't have barriers to entry.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I've just found kbin.social and find it has superior signup options. It's just: make an account (email/password), or sign up with Google or Apple. No server talk. Upside is the layout is nice and it acts as a Lemmy instance (threads) as well as a mastodon instance (microblogging). Only downside currently is that their android/iOS app is in development and isn't ready yet, so desktop only.

https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

https://kbin.social/

I think this might be the better recommendation for newbies at the moment.