For fucks sake, lately it seems /c/worldnews is just like /r/worldnews, every stupid insignificant thing that happens in the US gets a shitty post here. Could you think twice about posting anything US/Europe related thing? I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any news regarding these places but some times it’s really stupid.

Why should I care if republicans win over there? I dont fuckig care. Why should I give a flying fuck if Trump gets his fucking Twitter account back? I honestly couldn’t care less what fascist shit Usonian politicans post on that proprietary network. Why should I care that the UK pigs are one of the worst repressive organs in the world?

I could go on, the thing is that if you want to post shit about the US, do it in a community regarding the US, unless that news could be of interest to the rest of the world. For example if the US creates a new war or participates in a coup d’etat (and they do it pretty often), that could be of interest to the rest of the world, if not, post it somewhere else. Try to think it this way, would you care to know something similar to what you’re going to post if that would be happening in an African country? Or in a Latin American country? If the answer is no, then don’t do it.

Please let’s try and make Lemmy a place that’s not Reddit, we don’t need to be so Usocentric/Eurocentric, even if it’s hard.

  • Evan
    4·
    3 years ago

    I agree, but at the same time there are other bigger problems to address before, at least in my book.

    Things like

    1. How can we make the federated Lemmy more seamless? The in message community mentioning syntax, for instance, could use refinement
    2. How can we support different languages better?
    3. Is it possible to avoid the space for radicles that comes with federated platforms while still maintaining the values that a federation stands for?
    4. Working out minor quirks that lower trust, like the 502 page when logging out, randomly being logged out until you reload, no css occasionally, and the free .ml domain for the flagship instance

    Than, how can we attract users, specifically from different countries?

    The first thing that comes to mind before advertising is attracting other communities from Reddit, but why would they come? Voat attracted members because the alt right was unwelcome on reddit, but most communities dont find a huge need to switch, even if they feel things could be better. The one exception is the privacy/Foss community, but it’s a small one and perhaps not the best Target audience, let alone one of many nationalities.

    If the above paragraph was somehow an attraction plan despite no internationality, some more issues would need to be ironed out:

    1. can we offer reddit import?
    2. can we make a compelling offer for everyone
    3. can we have an attractive landing page

    In line with 3, I think at some point some branding consideration is needed, ie

    Lemmy: a world for everyone

    With an illustration of stuff being shipped between different planets, one covered in flowers, another in factories and tech, and one more with ???

    As an idea.

    I am interested in your strategy ideas for growth. While I am rambling, worth noting that a democracy system is my long term dream, although far off in the pipeline

    One final note, I have a tad bit of experience in rust and have read the book. I might be interested in seeing if I can help out at all? if you need it that is (My schedule is super wonky)

    • nutomicA
      1·
      3 years ago

      How can we make the federated Lemmy more seamless? The in message community mentioning syntax, for instance, could use refinement

      You mean the syntax for @community and @user? Agree, that definitely needs improvement.

      How can we support different languages better?

      This should help

      Is it possible to avoid the space for radicles that comes with federated platforms while still maintaining the values that a federation stands for?

      Hard to say, I think this is something where individual instances might differ a lot.

      Working out minor quirks that lower trust, like the 502 page when logging out, randomly being logged out until you reload, no css occasionally, and the free .ml domain for the flagship instance

      Please open issues in lemmy-ui with details about these bugs. Btw lemmy.ml is not the flagship instance.

      can we offer reddit import?

      Its easy enough to write a script which imports things through the Lemmy API. But I dont see any reason to integrate an import feature directly in Lemmy.

      can we make a compelling offer for everyone

      Not everyone is going to like Lemmy, and thats okay.

      can we have an attractive landing page

      Again, best open issues in the joinlemmy repo.

      One final note, I have a tad bit of experience in rust and have read the book. I might be interested in seeing if I can help out at all? if you need it that is (My schedule is super wonky)

      There are plenty of things to work on, so if you see something interesting on the issue tracker, why not give it a try. Feel free to ask in Matrix chat if anything is unclear.

      • Evan
        2·
        3 years ago

        Is everything in open in the issue trackers open to being worked on? ie: is the tracker actively maintained (had some bad experiences with this)

        • nutomicA
          1·
          3 years ago

          Generally yes, though sometimes we forget to update an issue. If you want to work on something, its best to mention that in a comment first.

    • roastpotatothief
      1·
      3 years ago

      Some great ideas there. You should post this on c/lemmy, the right place for “bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy”.