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I wish we could advertise lemmy.world! (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago by Cna to c/general

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We are at the cusp of becoming the #1 Lemmy instance, which is very exciting. But I wish there was a better way of informing casual users about lemmy and how easy it is to join and use. I don't think most people need to (or want to) know the intricacies of the Fediverse, but it sounds overwhelming and complicated to them, and as a result they won't even give it a try, when in fact joining lemmy.world to post on c/cats is no more complicated than doing it on r/cats. I wish we could put ads on YouTube, or on on a billboard or something to tell them/show them that! Lemmy (and Fediverse) will only truly be successful if/when the casual users join.

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[–] Cna 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly! But i don’t think word of mouth is enough. Also i think timing matters too; right now there are a lot of people potentially looking for options, but if you google “reddit alternatives” it brings upnonsense articles about how lemmy is not ready yet etc

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh those articles aren't entirely wrong though. Lemmy's lacking in a lot of critical ways in terms of administrative & moderation tools, personal filtering options, and so on.

It's just one of only a few options for a federated link aggregator available atm.

[–] Cna 2 points 1 year ago

True but reddit couldn’t get a video player to work for a decade and it was fine 😂 Joking aside though, I think it goes both ways. Lemmy and others have had so many improvements in a matter of days because of necessity. (Eg the iOS app gets 1-2 updates a day, something that didn’t even exist a couple of weeks ago). So the more people join the faster the updates are and the better the services will be. So I do think active recruitment of people who are less tech savvy is to everyone’s benefit in the end. Advertising may be a stupid idea but I’m wondering what else we can do besides word of mouth (especially those of us who don’t have the know-how to participate in the actual dev process)