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How can we boost Lemmy membership? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Spasmolytic@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I'm really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?

I had my wife join, and she likes it, but laments the slow pace of new material in the communities.

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[–] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The instance finder is built to encourage the use of topic specific instances rather than general use ones so that communities are grouped together better in the same site. The site can then manage all the communities effectively and have the site customized to accomodate them better (and make it feel more like a home for what you like looking at and discussion with others rather than one of many reddit clones)

Categories are mainly so that people are sent to a topic instance that matches their interests. Science goes to mander, programming to p.d, sports to fanaticus, gaming to lemmy.zip, etc.

If youve got some suggestions on how to improve it though let me know, still in progress

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure! Maybe move Lemmy.World to general? I know we're kind of a catch all instance. Other then that, great stuff.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lemmy.world is in general. Just instances appear in more than one spot (and some general communities appear for a category if they have the largest community for that category and theres no topic specific instances for it). For example of multiple spots lemmy.db.zer0 is in A.I., anarchist, and a couple others since it has those topics in it

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah neat!