Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about.
Reddit:- You Google Reddit and your first result is Reddit.com. You click the link and are presented with the front page. You from scroll from a few hours and end up signing up and staying.
Lemmy:- You Google Lemmy and your first result is a wiki article for Lemmy Kilmister... Your second result might be join-lemmy.org, which you're smart enough to realise it's probably more likely what the news is about.
You click join-lemmy.org and are presented with a page of information about the fediverse, links to set up a server and pictures of code...
There is very little chance you're going to investigate further.
If we want the fediverse to replace Reddit then either
A) Lemmy needs to improve its initial impression and Search engine optimization
B) We should be promoting a different platform with a better initial first impression.
I'd recommend kbin personally as it gives the same sort of experience as Reddit from the initial interaction.
Yeah, the pace is still crazy, but it's a completely different mental comfort when you're aware that you're not alone ;)
We're all with you!
Yup, we are all with you dude!
Java Dev here if there’s anything I can contribute with a couple hours a week!
My condolences
r/ProgrammerHumor.. Oh oops, old habit.
We have an m/ProgrammerHumor !
hashtags work in the fediverse #ProgrammerHumor
kbin is written in PHP, but if you want to contribute, it's opensource on codeberg.
Kbin is PHP/Symfony, but people are writing tools in various languages, not to mention clients. I haven't looked at the client repositories, but I assume that some, if not all, of the codebases for them are Java.
Let me know if you need some more coffee!
;)
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https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
And my axe!
Reddit really is here