DessalinesAug 6, 2023

We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. *Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST*

https://lemmy.ml/post/2920188

We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. *Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST* - Lemmy

This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] [https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today. Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand. Original Announcement thread [https://lemmy.ml/post/2671212]

Show threadJohnDClayAug 6, 2023
Do you think ‘normies’ (people with very very little technical knowledge/experience) will be able to come to a decentralized platform like lemmy? Can a platform be successful long term (especially in niche areas) without that super huge low effort part of the user base?
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One of the things up next on my agenda, is to re-do join-lemmy.org . We have the mockup for it done, I just need to complete it.

Also as someone who grew up before the “use this single US-based site to connect to everything”, I don’t see how lemmy is too different from older forums. You go to a site, click the signup button, and wait for approval / log in immediately. You don’t need to know anything about activitypub, federation, or the fediverse to sign up and start using a lemmy site.

Aug 7, 2023 at 1:22pmWeb