Submitted 4 days ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/29182109
Flowpath to have a Lemmy account for complete Newb
Give them an instance you think they’d vibe with and tell them to check it out. I know some instances make joining way more complicated than it needs to be or has you write a whole freakin’ essay; but most don’t and are just as easy to sign up and start using as Reddit or other SM.
Nothing can be easier than going to portal.alien.top, signing up with your Reddit account and seeing your account already subscribed to communities corresponding to your favorite subreddits.
Just send them a link to Lemmy.world with whatever frontend you think they’d like best.
LW is bigger than it should be. Direct them to some other instance.
Share something useful from Lemmy with someone not on Lemmy, when that something does not also contain toxic negativity or vitriol, but is positive, inclusive, and cordial.
Mass adoption won’t come easily. People treat social media just like broadcast and print mass media: they want to follow big names and brands. It’s a change in mindset looking for niche communities instead. Look at Bluesky, it didn’t really take off until big Twitter accounts moved and brought their minions with them.
There’s no easy or hard way, if they are willing to join they will.
Why are you in Lemmy? Explain your reasons to them and why you decided to join and hopefully they understand and join too, that’s all you can do. Forcing people into the Fediverse won’t make them use it of they don’t believe in it.
I honestly was fucking pissed at Reddit for destroying Apollo so I read a headline about a burgeoning alternative that was fundamentally different in spirit if not in letter from Reddit
Yup indeed!
I think talking openly about the issues to people and explaining there are better ways that exist is the way to go. If they are in qith the idea entering the Fediverse ia a no brainer.
For me it’s crazy how many public institutions are on private social medias and not open ones where they can set their own server and rules. It’s also crazy how social norms have been decided by the top private companies in the world, if that’s not a distopian I don’t know what is it.
I wouldn't recommand lemmy.world there are lot instance they can pick up 😅
LW is fine. This a community dedicated to a niche video-game genre. The community already existed, just had very few posts.
What do you mean? It’s just like signing up for an email account, and you get access to a forum like experience. Same thing for any other fedi app but the UI looks like something else.
Give me a numbered bullet most concise path to do that
join-lemmy.org worked for me. I had never heard of Lemmy before someone sent a modmail to a sub that I moderate. They told us about beehaw I think, then join Lemmy. I went I joined and I have been here since.
Send them to lemmyverse.net
To show them what Lemmy is, link them to lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=N…
The important thing is to link them to the “New” page, because the Active page doesn’t change that frequently.
Then if they are interested, show them how to sign up for an account at Lemmy World, how to join communities, how to block communities and how to comment and post.
kurikai@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Start sharing lemmy posts with them. Don’t tell them to join up. Just like the best way to get someone to listen to a song is just yo play it when they are around, rather then telling them to listen to it.