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Boost for Lemmy is happening!
(lemmy.world)
Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Let's go.
Well up for this. The polish of Boost on top of the federated structure of Lemmy could be perfect.
FOSS?
Are there any Foss lemmy app yet?
Boost for Reddit wasn't, so I would expect the same here.
Got to support the dev of somehow. I'd happily pay for it again.
"Contains ads" no thank you
If it's anything like Boost for Reddit was, it's unnoticeable. Every 20 or so posts you'll see an ad and just scroll past, no animations or sound. I think I recall seeing a bottom banner? Any other Boost users confirm? I really just ignored it so I can't recall.
My point is, ads were non-obstructive
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Hell yeah! It's my favorite reddit app by far.
That's great. I've been using boost for years, can't wait to have them for lemmy!
Is this real??? He said he wasn't going to do this 🤔
He said he would not be doing Boost for Lemmy, and that he would focus on smaller apps:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/comment/jow1le5
And he only registered the Lemmy community to prevent impersonation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/comment/jouvuok
I wonder if he put this on the store as a placeholder to also prevent impersonation?
EDIT: Damn, just saw the screenshots. Either this is a very elaborate placeholder, or it's really happening!
Why does it have to be so hard to find communities? Trying to add this, but it doesn't show up: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy
Should I just leave lemm.ee since it has trouble finding every single community?
When browsing communities from other instances you need to modify the link as follows:
Such a mess of a URL. I sincerely hope something else comes up to surpass Lemmy/kbin, or that the apps in development hide those kinds of messy bits.
I think the main issue right now is just your unfamiliarity. Once you get used to the the format it makes a lot of sense.
[instance-you-are-on]/c/[community-name]@[instance-it-is-on]
This standardisation has already proven itself for multiple years now, with millions of people using it over on Mastodon. People will get used to it. The "this is unfamiliar and scary to me" reaction goes away as the familiarity develops over time.
Yeah that does make sense now that you've laid it out, but at the same time I couldn't care less about seeing the instance info once I'm subbed to something. Even showing my profile as being @lemmy.world is just cumbersome, lame looking, and ultimately unnecssary for so many users. Could be a useful sorting tool for sure, but it would be cleaner to have the option to hide them altogether, y'know? I'm excited to see what all of the devs do with this new platform!
I think at the current point in time it's useful for teaching early adopters and enthusiasts. A simplified format might develop at later stages when aiming to cross the gap into mainstream household adoption.
One of the things we need to achieve on the fediverse is not just getting people to move to fediverse sites and use them, but to understand why they're using fediverse sites and why cutting out corporations is a good thing. The average person isn't going to come over without bigger reasons to, they want their slop and will go to wherever has the most slop. Create a new culture with a reason for people to support it, use that to reach a critical mass to pump out a competitive amount of slop, then at that point you'll drag in the mainstream.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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