I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it’s “dogshit” and “not going anywhere” get systematically upvoted.

Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like “yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org” 🤦‍♂️

It’s frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that “Lemmy is not ready yet” and that there’s “no viable alternative to Reddit”.

This and the overwhelming number of comments being “against the mod protests” just prompts me to question whether there isn’t some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.

  • @jpenczek
    11•2 years ago

    My biggest issue with Lemmy is lack of userbase… which is fixable by signing up for Lemmy.

    Figured best case scenario other people make the switch, worst case I’ll forget this service even exists.

    Also does anyone know how to enable dark mode, or if there is a dark mode?

    • @Aztech
      9•2 years ago

      I use jerboa for Android and it has TWO dark modes 😱

    • @Aurix
      7•2 years ago

      There is a lot of activity to spend many hours here. Discover more communities here. There is a dark mode, go to the settings page. You will find it in a drop down menu.

    • @ImDonaldDunn
      6•2 years ago

      Once there are good mobile apps in the app stores, I think we’ll start seeing a surge in adoption. The other big piece is moderation tools. If Lemmy can manage to build better mod tools than Reddit, it would be a big draw for power mods

    • Mintyytea
      5•2 years ago

      yeah that’s what I’m struggling with too, like it’d be great if we could encourage people to try these, but at the same time I don’t want to give them a bad first impression to turn them off forever if they can not stand it’s still a baby project (understandable). I honestly don’t think it’s that hard to start using these fediverse products though, and I feel like the posts saying “lemmy will never take off”, “kbin is too hard to use” only gave me barriers to start using it. And then when I did start, I was like oh this is great, everyone’s talking, it’s a close community

      • moon_matter
        5•2 years ago

        The biggest issue is how easily people are taken “off-site” when linking to another instance, leaving them essentially logged out and unable to subscribe or otherwise participate. Users should be presented an option to be redirected to the relative view within their instance or go external. With the “external” link in much smaller font below the preferred option. Kind of like how Steam or Discord has a pop-up asking if you “trust this site” whenever you leave their spaces.

        • Mintyytea
          1•2 years ago

          Yeah I do agree with that. Like if I got some search results from google, and it came from lemmy.one, the link takes me to lemmy.one site, but I probably don’t have an account on specifically lemmy.one. Then I can’t make any comments, save/upvote. I’d have to navigate there again on my account’s server to be able to do anything

          • moon_matter
            2•2 years ago

            If you’re coming from anywhere other than your home instance, that’s a slightly different problem that is unfortunately impossible to completely solve without a browser extension. Sites cannot access cookies from a different website for obvious security reasons. So the most another web site would be able to do is offer a drop down with a redirect to the most popular instances. It would work similar to third party social media sign-ins (e.g. sign in via google account).

            The problem with the fediverse is that they couldn’t possibly offer a full sign-in list, but maybe at worst you would have to type it in manually or rely on an extension.