join-lemmy.org looks much improved now! And yes linking directly to an instance is the way to go, I would've put URLs in this promotional image instead of just names
I'm not sure if I have any specific ideas at the moment. It's possible Lemmy has just reached a saturation point with Reddit where the people still on Reddit are the ones who bounced off Lemmy before, so they won't give it another chance anytime soon, but they haven't tried PieFed yet. Maybe the optimal strategy is to cycle between the recommendations to catch everyone with whatever suits them best. I think we should also try changing out the Mastodon recommendation and see if something else catches people who haven't already switched to Fediverse microblogging.
I think PieFed's idea of asking new users what they want/don't want to see is a good idea.
I honestly think next time we should switch Mastodon out for something else (still Fediverse/ActivityPub of course).
We've already given Reddit users enough chances to try out Mastodon, we should see if the general Reddit users accept something else better. But I'm not experienced with microblogging at all, it's not my thing. Hopefully something with a discovery algorithm.
We've seen good results from promoting PieFed instead of Lemmy, so switching it up does work.
I've seen the Reddit users be more receptive of PieFed over Lemmy. In a post suggesting Lemmy, the Reddit users will just comment that it looks ugly, it's confusing, devs are tankies, etc. Posts suggesting PieFed get less complaints and more signups.
Also I think the instance choice is easier for PieFed compared to Lemmy. If you tell people to use Lemmy, they'll probably end up on lemmy.world which is overpopulated, or lemmy.ml...
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Remember that Windows was once unintelligible to you too
I think the main difference is before they would go
kernel patch -> own repo -> (own distro and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros
now they're gonna go
kernel patch -> OGC repo -> (OGC distros and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros
and that means there will be way more code reviewers and testers (and more automated testing?) happening before release
and these things being merged together earlier also makes it easier, especially since I imagine the mainline Linux is pretty slow to accept gaming-related patches
I love this show! You've started at a good time, you don't have to wait years for season 4 lol