So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now.
Redditors will talk about Lemmy and moving communities here, but it is really best shown that the communities are rebuilding here. Thoughts? I’ve started with a few memes and am starting a new community here as well!
Sign ups in many instances becoming application-only certainly does not help Lemmy grow.
I think that’s mostly temporary because v0.18 disables captchas which will only return on v0.18.1
Has this been confirmed yet? I saw some discussion in GH but last I checked they didn’t reach a resolution.
From the announcement post:
Captchas are not available in this version, as they need to be reimplemented in a different way. They will be back in 0.18.1, so wait with upgrading if you rely on them.
It would probably be better to just let it ride and see how it goes.
Do the google spiders know about lemmy?
We’ve got a good “seed community”. We need to move on from “anti-Reddit” and towards “Lemmy-community building”. This is a hard step forward.
We don’t know what each other’s interests are, we don’t know how many #RedditBlackout communities existed (I mean, we have some ideas. “mtgzone.com” and “programming.dev”)… but we don’t know if we can create say… an Advance Wars community (Nintendo Game), or if we need to stick to just Nintendo as our topic.
I think keeping to !Newcommunities, and trying to organize ourselves into our different branches of knowledge / discussion is the near term goal. What DO we have as a community? Clearly we’re all willing to leave Reddit (and some of us here were willing to leave Reddit last year, long before #RedditBlackout), but for long-term sustainability, we need to get deeper connections than that.
Ideally, we can grow some of these communities to be the best place on the internet for that subject. For example, /r/Factorio was one of the premier places to study Factorio strategies (Video game). But Reddit wasn’t the best at say, AVR (AVRFreaks was a better site for that). That’s fine, having a 2nd tier or lesser site is still useful for an overall hangout spot that’s more casual.
I think Lemmy has a lot of opportunity in community building because of its Reddit-like structure (more similar than Mastodon was to Twitter). With some custom GUIs, we can build new video game communities with custom GUIs (ex: Chess .pgn viewers: https://github.com/mliebelt/PgnViewerJS) to further discussions in ways impossible to the original Reddit (more akin to PhpBB), but still with the advantages of single-sign-on / federation to join up a bunch of other communities.
That’s the direction we should be going, IMO anyway.
An iOS and android app would be helpful in making lemmy more accessible
I’m using Memmy, whose UI is inspired by Apollo. It’s not perfect, but functional and looks great! You can use it through TestFlight
Lemmy already has a few apps for Android like Jerboa,Connect for Lemmy,and Liftoff. IOS has mlem and probably a few more. They’re not yet as good as reddit TPAs but they’re there and being actively developed.
I think it’s kbin that needs an app rn as it’s growing rapidly and the only app i know for it (Artemis) is still in alpha.
Memmy for iOS feels a lot like Apollo so far and it’s getting at least 2-3 updates per day. It’s still in beta so you need to get it via TestFlight, but once it’s downloaded it feels just like any other app. To me, it has far outpaced Mlem even after just 23 days since its first beta release. Here’s the link once you’ve downloaded TestFlight: [https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy](Memmy beta).
Artemis is another one that’s in development and heavily influenced by Apollo (hence the name). I don’t think it’s available yet in beta but the preview images from a few days ago look promising.
[https://beehaw.org/post/683217](This Beehaw post of useful links) seems to maintain a list of apps and their development stages
Apollo for Lemmy or kbin, made by the same dev, would be absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately, I think he’s given up on social media apps entirely.
