there’s no point in wondering why lemmy isn’t more popular, just participate in the communities you like.
I think we can and should nerd the shit out of this.
A good nerd can understand why a space is appealing to nerds but less to others, and adjust it accordingly to fix that.
Let’s move this tech from “it works great if you know how to use it” to “it’s great and I have no idea how it works”. Remove server talk from https://join-lemmy.org/. Auto-assign instance for newcomers so they don’t need to care. Make switching instances easy and seemless so it does not matter they did not care. Make links and IDs work cross-instance out of the box. Complete documentation (there’s a wiki which could use some love). Things like that. Improve user experience until using something else feels like a pain.
I overall completely agree with your comment, just wanted to nitpick on this one “no point” point. I think this is important, even for the nerds.
I think we can and should nerd the shit out of this.
A good nerd can understand why a space is appealing to nerds but less to others, and adjust it accordingly to fix that.
Let’s move this tech from “it works great if you know how to use it” to “it’s great and I have no idea how it works”. Remove server talk from https://join-lemmy.org/. Auto-assign instance for newcomers so they don’t need to care. Make switching instances easy and seemless so it does not matter they did not care. Make links and IDs work cross-instance out of the box. Complete documentation (there’s a wiki which could use some love). Things like that. Improve user experience until using something else feels like a pain.
I overall completely agree with your comment, just wanted to nitpick on this one “no point” point. I think this is important, even for the nerds.