I think people are retreating more and more into chat groups. Those people are not on reddit anymore, they are probably in discord related to certain products hobbies etc.

I really wonder how long until we will start seeing the effects of not having more updated general knowledge in the public web, but oh well 🤷

On a side note, after all, the web always had a bias and a lot of fields never had easily available public discussions...

I would rework the other stuff, like the whole branding because all that hacker green doesn't help in feeling the communities. And the images for the same reason... Also there are some features that are worthless listing like "you can have an avatar"

Also the censorship thing...

Let's say that the homepage kinda reflects the state of lemmy people as a group right now and it's not so nice imo

Focussing on being a clean forum with nested answers and human curated algorithm and idk, just pointing some low hanging fruits

On a side note I wonder if having the page as onboarding for users instead of explaining the software is the right target. Ideally it should be communities trying to outreach to have people on their servers, not the software asking to join people who use the software (?)

But I digress.

On a marketing level point of view, while we are clearly the small fish, it's not bad to leverage being enemies of Reddit. Like in the past we've seen much more Apple vs Microsoft while now they ignore each other.

"Reddit if was not owned by venture capitalists who keep ruining your life" lol (too long)

Anyway, is there any kind of data to know if people actually join lemmy by joinlemmy site?

A community poll for Lemmy users would be good.

Mastodon also got the rss for user's media, useful to follow artists

As for Reddit, go away from the main subs

unluckily niches are not yet developed enough but still better than nothing and you can help with posting

It costed nothing to say Kenya instead of Africa and Solar power revolution instead of solarpunk

While the funds pour in, yes, startup are so nice, let’s see this fully integrated vertical stack with sensor for remote shut down how evolves with time…

The same article could be done with the fediverse “solarpunk is already happening on the internet” or whatever good thing is happening in the world

Sorry I just feel like the author is sugar coating a startup, a bit de-politicizing solarpunk and looking down on Africa complexity e_e

Still an interesting read

well, it depends on the culture of the commune but let's skip this and i'll just focus on commune as a tool

if it's used as a tool for escapism, good but it will never scale and ''everyone should be in one'' it's just impossible

if, like i dream, it's used as a tool to offload work of a group of people to allow them to make better politics because being much more resilient to capital swings, cool af u.u

obviously it's not binary and what i described it's not even a model with 2 opposites, but i wanted to focus on these cases

weird in betweens like project kamp are very interesting but I still think they focus too much on the being indipendent rather than using the commune as a tool for "greater" scope.

Not having admins spamming would already solve half of that issue lol

To use bonfire, to be even more local (me and the other admin actually live in the same province) and because apparently my social circles are too attached to telegram to post in the open web questions that they can make in our shared groups

Oh and because the main community that should have moved changed idea, so no more being the focal point for political organization in the Italian landscape

Also there is a bug in my ear that keeps repeating that we should just embrace this dark forest internet moment and hide in chat groups like everyone else

AniSocial got the same issues as EuropePub: ton of noise, 0 purposes and discussion.

Even just having the thread to discuss latest one piece chapter would be enough

I made a telegram group to have similar results but it’s still a bit annoying that no one in the open social world wants to fight the trend of hiding into chat groups e-e

yep, we have tons of news posting but few discussion i agree

Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse

Other similar servers yes, more themed ones i don't think so...

what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse

Ye that's a problem. Marketing as in market of mental space not as in ''buy this one''

someone jumped the gun on community creation

Yep, exactly why i feel hesitant partecipating in some subs :o

You are right that problably there is not enough interest, but not that someone shouldn't try anyway u.u

Kinda agree but I’m not so sure about the egg or the chicken first

Belonging is very important and there is clearly a dominant techie culture in generalistic instances right now