Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible.
Please be helpful and welcoming to all the new users. Also keep an eye out in the Support community if you can and help answer any questions if possible. Thanks for eveyones help and contribution.
Also a massive thank you to everyone who donates. Its a huge help with the expenses for running the site. Im commitied to making this instance the best I can and any feedback good or bad is very much welcome.
I’ll leave a couple of hot tips here.
This tampermonkey script helps make lemmy’s post listing look more like old reddit.
This extension helps you subscribe to communities on other instances, just set it up so it knows your account is on vlemmy.net (or wherever it is):
- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lemmy-link/glhbnnmcnindhfaebnckcfdblggpjlog/related
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/lemmy-link/
- Github: https://github.com/FackJox/lemmy-link
Here’s a list of communities (subs): https://sub.rehab/
and a list of instances with their permissions: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
Just joined and am a little confused. I went to the link with all the subs and I favorited a bunch of them, but none of them are showing up in my communities.
If your in Lemmy go to communities link, make sure you select all, then search/browse. You’ll need to select one, and from there should see a subscribe button/link. Not sure if your “saving” them or what. Not sure I know what favorite means in your context.
I hope tweaks like these are combined into a single extension later, like RES
And lemmyverse.net’s functionality definitely needs to be integrated in Lemmy itself. Not seeing the true member count (and thus activity) is a major blow to discoverability. And makes comms seem way smaller than they are to new users
Having looked around Lemmy a fair bit and understanding the platform structure a bit, I understand small well-run instance = gold, but new users without that onboarding would easily be turned away by small user counts.
Maybe it’s a problem of recent internet culture, but it seems like users have a hard time taking the effort to understand a new interface. Whatever the reason, simplicity that pushes users to understand where they are could be quite helpful.
Agreed. Onboarding and discoverability should be the top priority.
Apps should go as far as to assign new users to a random general instances (lemm.ee, lemmy.one, vlemmy.net etc) if it means users not having to know about instances.
