Reddit never had to compete with a musician in search results.
I think the political culture is holding it back more than the name. People poke their heads in and see an environment that is far more left than they’re used to so they head back to Reddit. It can be a shock to see all the moe/loli and communist stuff when they aren’t used to it.
👍 best tip I got in my early days on Lemmy was to not hesitate with blocking instances
Good.
Things we have no interest in changing. The topics of the most popular threads (linux, privacy, open source, niche diy, programming), the makeup of the communities (occupation, gender, political alignment, etc.), non-mainstream opinions (privacy, dangers of AI, how to best spend one’s time).
Lemmy will never grow as it stands. The public won’t change and neither will we. Our best shot is to pitch it to somewhat technically minded folks while could operate an instance if it is set up for them. Most of us could do this pretty easily with Ansible.
The harder part is the pitch. ESPECIALLY when persuading someone to manage an instance, we need to lighten any of the opinions in the first paragraph. Something we don’t historically do very well.
We also need to make things more “fun/useful”. Sports trivia, more cat/animal memes, substantially less cynical comics/more “funny ones”, more mainstream hobby communities (e.g. cooking, rock climbing, active D&D), random/communities with no “real purpose”, communities for differently abled/neurodivergent folks with a large enough user base to provide real support.
Creature comforts. A lot of people are going to find Lemmy to be primative. Something we take for granted is we will happily embrace something “inferior” but belonging to us rather than the bleeding edge proprietary offerings. I’ve come to find I “love” my freedom oriented software and hardware to the point I don’t even care if it shits the bed. It’s like my puppy. Sure it will do things I don’t like, but I’m patient with it. Most normies won’t feel that way. We’d need to polish and grow the code base to include the things people expect in a modern app, but most of us don’t have the skill or the time. And these additions may be things we don’t want anyway
I don’t see this as insurmountable. Less so as folks are becoming more aware of the invasive nature of AI. We just need to balance that et. al with the above.
I am uncertain what I want. I kinda like what lemmy is now. I don’t really want it to become mainstream. On the other hand I want the corporations to fail and lemmy is the best chance we have.
there is plenty of cooking and cat pics on lemmy and an entire instance dedicated to tabletop RPGs
I don’t doubt it, to the extent some want more people on lemmy, do you think what we have is sufficient in quality or quantity in the eyes of those who we would attract? That was my point
No issues with the name. My problem is I can’t just do a simple search and add lemmy to make it search lemmy, like you can with Reddit.
Kagi has a fediverse lens that works pretty well for that.
This would change everything.
Yeah but Lemmy is dead. Also a lost oppurtunity for the metal community to not just go by Kilmister. could flipped it to be Mr. Kill
Lemmy needs better marketing. The name is lame an non-descriptive of what it is. The UI, while awesome to the tech savvy is not modern enough to compete with alternatives. For Lemmy to succeed it has to become “cool” and it’s not there yet and seems to lack that sort of direction.
As the name of open source projects go, Lemmy isn’t the biggest dumpster fire I’ve come across. It’s clear how to pronounce it, at least.
I’m curious as to what the worst one is. GIMP is pretty bad, KiCAD has pronunciation problems, nothing else is coming to mind
GNU is the sound a man makes when you force his epiglottis open with a socket wrench.
Pledged a frat.
I confess that it is always odd to see a musician, now deceased for a decade, when searching for this platform. Mind you, that is an ongoing tribute to their legacy, which is how it came about.
In a 2020 post, Lemmy’s co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. “It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.”
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)#History
Pretty weak reasons for picking the name tbh
Why did you pick your username?
Because replacing First-past-the-post voting is the most ultragigagigantic idea possible.
divine vision hbu
Rather arbitrarily for mine haha
It took me three hours to decide upon mine, this was back when i needed one for the xbox 360. I literally sat there on the set up screen, and thought. You should see me struggle with character gens.
Way back in 1997 or so, I was not sure what to use, so I just chose “Foxtrot” from the phonetic alphabet because it sounded a little neat, and it has my favorite animal in it. It was not such an issue because you could still get that name everywhere at the time of course. Since then, I have mainly used variations of that, but at some point branched out into some others such as the one I use here.
It’s always kind of funny to me though, when I go through some old backup and see one of my forum signatures with my original name on it.
For me i went with WraithGear because i personally feel that i am not here, or real, that i am just piloting my corpse around. It crossed with my thoughts on gaming due to making an xbox account and all, and i have a framed art cell of metal gear acid on my desk, and it all kinda clicked. Its gear as in metal ‘gear’ more so then a cog.
How dare you besmirch the name of the frontman of the greatest band that has ever existed!
Eternity doesn’t work? I’m literally typing from it now…
You can filter it in the apps.
Voyager definitely has filtering.
You can’t have looked hard as it’s a top level setting on voyager lol
https://i.postimg.cc/18dfynWw/IMG-6886.png
Weird! Mines right there. Are you on android? I’m on IOS.
Weird that your phone doesn’t have that option.
The developer says you must be logged out
some would prefer the limited growth.
i picked moist because who the fuck would want to market that
Greatest and best name ever.
Well, there is that one guy…
Charles Boyle?
Von Lipwig?
For some reason I thought of Critical. The YouTuber. Charlie? penguinz? Or whatever the fuck he calls himself these days. Then I remembered he doesn’t sing…
freakin canada
Are you a “Dead like me” fan? Its the code word you set up to let your family know your not dead yet.
I love that show. I just started rewatching it, after rewatching Coupling. Giving me all the nostalgia.
nooope first ive heard of it! interesting
Its a world where the clean up of souls is differed to designated souls who for one reason or another can’t pass on. These souls are given a new body and are assigned to a cell to replace the one who reaped them. They are told a location, a time, and a name. And have to find the person about to die and pull the soul out before they are killed, else the soul brings the trama of death over with them. In the protagonists case she is put in the “freak accident death” group. Which reap people who are indirectly killed by demons mostly. It’s forbidden to reach out to your family for obvious reasons, but due to her mother HATING the word “moist” and considering it a sex slur, she leaves behind a message saying just that and the mother instantly catches on.
i will check it out, thanks!
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Based on what I’ve learnt, what’s holding Lemmy back is that a large amount of users are fucking man babies that brigade any women-oriented communities and drive women in general away from this place, while admins just sit back and allow them to. The Lemmy mouse needs a fedora.
If you think twoxchromosomes is bad because women there had the nerve to talk about their bad experiences, then actual feminist subs must’ve terrified you.
Just went there. Top post is politics, next post is about a touchy feely doctor, there’s a few about body image, more politics, a reminder to not use period tracker apps because the USA government is literally taking women’s rights over their own bodies away, dating advice, more politics.
Looks to me like a women-oriented subreddit for discussing women’s issues, just like it always has. Could you point out some of these ‘femcels’ there to me? Should they be praising the Trump administration, swooning over pervert doctors and sharing Andrew Tate screenshots instead?
Maybe a lot are a bit angry there but I think they’ve got every fucking right to be angry right now. Don’t you?
Leave .world alone! (the answer to the original question is not instance wars)
when I say ‘fediverse’ people think I’m saying ‘fetiverse’ and sometimes they ask if it’s like open source fetlife. 🫠
Whenever I see’fediverse’ I still think it has something to do with Roger Federer.
I do love some crumbly cheese, so I’ll allow it.
TBH the kink community has been needing a replacement for fetlife for a while
Oh my gosh, how nothing changed when all those people were getting murdered through the site? So scary!
just tell them “yes!”. they will figure it out :-)
The Fetaverse. Only Greek cheese.
Better than people assuming it’s a joke about it being full of feds, which I’ve seen before.
I’ve seen people ask why the Fetaverse has nothing to do with cheese
Maybe, but it would be hard to pivot at this point. There’s other things that would be a way better use of dev time.
You put some respect on Lemmy Kilmisters name, sir.
Finally a man of culture
