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While @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I do have a lot of issues that are going to take us a lot of time this upcoming year, its still useful for us to hear what your most desired features for Lemmy are, and prioritize them.

If they’re smaller, we could get to them fairly quickly, or others wanting to contribute could see whats most wanted.

Outside of just posting them here, make sure github issues exist for them (this is what we work from), and do a thumbs up react for all the ones you’d like. Despite being a popular project, we have very few people voting on these issues . We can then use the link above (issues sorted by most thumbs up ), to keep track.

Thanks all.

  • Evan
    31·
    3 years ago

    REPOST!!!11

    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

    • Sr Estegosaurio
      2·
      3 years ago

      About radicals and that stuff. Block them, they sure will create their own instances, ignore them. Federation is censorship resistant. So just ignore them, if you maintain an instance you can prohibit them if u want.