I tried to correct them there: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jtooq4/europe_keeps_building_social_apps_no_one_wants/mlvrugy/
I tried to correct them there: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jtooq4/europe_keeps_building_social_apps_no_one_wants/mlvrugy/
Yea, if it takes more than three steps, and five minutes to get started, you are loosing people
Also you would have to have a sharepic with three major platforms (mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy) in parallel.
Trying to mention Maston, Pixelfed and Lemmy at once seems confusing and to go against the KISS principle. Usually, people are looking for an alternative to one of the three, so pointing them to the one makes more sense.
However, talking about pics, https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started is a cool guide with cute illustrations. I usually refer to it when people are already on Lemmy and ask questions on how federation works
I mean a little sharepic with three columns, nothing fancy or bloated.
In each of the columns not more than three small bullet points. Preferably the first one “Install xyz” and the second one “hit explore” followed by a graphically detached third one “Join the network” or “learn more”. Don’t even dare to mention servers or federation or instances and AcitivityPub.
Ah, I see. That could work. Maybe post this idea on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to see if someone can come up with a nice infographic
Exactly this, I only went to Lemmy because I got shadowbanned on reddit. Specifically because every time someone mentions it its always “hur dur choose server, federation, bla bla” made it 100x more complicated than it had to be and made me not even want to check it out. I tried convincing a friend of mine to switch from reddit to here and they didn’t want to even after me explaining its just creating an account on feddit.nl, their reasoning was that they heard something about federation and decentralized stuff and because of that it was too complicated and he wasn’t interested. You lost that user entirely because someone mentioned it instead of keeping it simple.
I will agree with the annoyance they share on the post of having multiple communities about the same subject having bad cross-posting (due to no comment sharing) to reach everyone and that we should have a solution for that. Although I do not see a direct solution, their idea is good but I don’t really understand how moderation would work in that sense. Also blaze’s argument “just post it on the largest server everybody is there anyways” is in my opinion exactly against what lemmy stands for and makes everybody depended on that 1 community/host/whatever we wanna call it.
I said the most active community, not the largest server, otherwise I would just post to all the Lemmy.world communities, which is the opposite of what I stand for
What happens however is that you need a certain number of people to keep a community active. I was trying to keep !photography@discuss.online alive for a bit, but the most active community is by far !photography@lemmy.world.
As it currently stands, for a conversation to happens in the comments, it needs to be on one post, on the same community. I know Piefed kind of proposes a workaround with the merged comments section, but still, if you see an interesting comment and reply to it, you are going to reply to it in the community the comment is hosted on, contributing to “consolidation”, as that community is now more active by one comment that the others.
That’s just inherent to the Reddit-like format.
I can only speak for my experience, but cross posting works best if OP does it. That way he gets notified about responses.
Second best is, if someone cross posts content to discuss it with people he shares a community with. In that case reposter should make clear where the original content comes from and that he is not OP. That way informed readers can choose to answer in the community of their liking.
Feel free to share with the mod of !BuyFromEU@europe.pub, they literally crossposted your post without any of the comments who make the post interesting: https://europe.pub/post/158763
Yea. I’ve seen that. In my opinion the person bringing content into the community has the responsibility to make something meaningful with it. E.g. start a conversation or get information and engage with the people.
If you’re just adding links, thats fine, too. In the end, links are a way to bring attention to something worthy or funny.
Links are valuable, but there needs to be some comments with them to make it feel like it’s worth sharing.
I’ve noticed a trend on the europe.pub community, it has literally only crossposts from other communities and 0 comments
Examples:
For now it is only one person trying to generate content to be attractive. I’m sure strategy will change in time.