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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Do you think 'normies' (people with very very little technical knowledge/experience) will be able to come to a decentralized platform like lemmy? Can a platform be successful long term (especially in niche areas) without that super huge low effort part of the user base?

[–] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sync makes it as simple as any mainsfream social media

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't tried sync yet, how does new account creation work through their app?

[–] Tsinc@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This comment states that they default to lemmy.world. I don't think it should be handled that way.

[–] just_the_ticket@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Which is terrible, it centralizes Lemmy in lemmy.world, they're already facing performance issues because of this.

[–] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this is an ad. An ad for a platform with ads.

[–] RookieNerd@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@HR_Pufnstuf @OtakuAltair can you give some more context?

[–] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sync is a client app designed to make money either buy being purchased (cool) or by monetizing Lemmy’s content with their own ads. This person is promoting it, hence it is an ad.

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