Edit: we made a join-lemmy.org banner in the center instead. It was a fight.
Edit: We’ve lost to South Africa. Please help with overwriting this r/ to c/ instead!
Top left corner of the green rectangle: (85, 228)
Template: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/placeLemmyTemplate.json
The previous one by The Black Company was too wide to defend against Italy. Let’s make this one! I know LEMMY.ML is not the full Lemmyverse but we don’t have space for JOIN-LEMMY now.
To use its template, install the r/place userscript (guide) and go to https://new.reddit.com/r/place/?jsontemplate=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FChaoticNeutralCzech%2FmyRandomImages%2Fmain%2FplaceLemmyTemplate.json&screenmode=fullscreen
or if you already have it, import one of these (either the URLencoded one in URL, or the raw one in plugin settings)
https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FChaoticNeutralCzech%2FmyRandomImages%2Fmain%2FplaceLemmyTemplate.json
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/placeLemmyTemplate.json
I would heavily recommend linking to join-lemmy.org instead of lemmy.ml.
I know, it’s better for decentralization to link to the directory. The Black Company tried but they were overrun by Italy.
LEMMY.MLis the “shortest” Lemmy link and we cannot fit anything more unless the canvas expands or the very loose Fuck Spez Coalition lends us more space.I’d maybe just say “Lemmy is a better Reddit” in that case.
Person: Searches “Lemmy”
Le Google: Lemmy Kilmister Mötorheador *goes to Lemmy.org* (which is what many are still trying to build)
…that domain is for sale for €6666 lol
1234 people have already viewed this offer
sounds legit
If your goal is to advertise the fediverse You should have used ‘kbin’.
People can go directly to “lemmy.ml” but the site might disappear due to Mali re-establishing ownership of .ml domains, also its run by a tankie which will upset some people.
“Lemmy” provides 10 google sponsored results and then ‘join-lemmy’, the join-lemmy website has you ‘join a server’ and then presents you lots of options.
During the first Mastodon surge one of their issues is people felt overwhelmed by the options and it hurt Mastodon adoption, so a single website does make a lot of sense. Personally I would suggest lemmy.world its a general instance and the admins aren’t linked to any extremist views, but you said that would be too long.
If you put ‘kbin’ into search the top result is kbin.social, that makes it seems like a reddit alternate. It keeps user choice limited and brings them into the fediverse. That means people aren’t confronted with the complexity of the fediverse immediately and can learn and understand it at their own pace.
So if your goal is to advertise the fediverse I would push kbin, if your goal is to specifically get people to use a Lemmy based website I don’t think you have a good option
The only thing with kbin is the lack of a mobile app. A lot of newer reddit users don’t even know there’s a website. It might be hard to convince those users to switch to kbin if it doesn’t have a mobile app.
I agree with this. There is at least five apps right now that are great for people coming from reddit, so Lemmy has that covered.
Maybe I am old but I don’t understand the NEED for a mobile application.
The kbin website works well on desktop and mobile web browsers with no render issues. The lemmy mobile apps all seem to be “alpha” quality.
Why is a buggy app better thana working website?
I choose an application or website based on which one works best. For example I browse Amazon via the web browser on the phone since the mobile application takes 2-5 seconds to load.
Wefwef is far from alpha quality, and it is a significantly better browsing experience than browser, at least on iOS, where you have to disable content blockers entirely to get comments to load if you have one installed.
I personally don’t care about Twitter like services and I think many Redditors don’t either, so kbin has some additional noise for us.
Clearly you haven’t used Kbin.
KBin’s have two distinct views “Threads” (Reddit Style) and “Microblogs” (Twitter), the default view is “Threads”. You won’t see posts in the Thread view and you won’t see Articles/Threads in the Microblog view
Its an option similar to Top/Hot/Newest its existence doesn’t hurt
Lemm.ee is pretty short
Please no I don’t want my instance to get overrun by reddit users :(
I mean some are cool but if we overpopulate instances they begin having issues, have we not learnt from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml having tons of issues early July?
But we’ve also stress tested and evolved lemmy as a whole because of those instances’ troubleshooting
Do you really think this will pull in more traffic than the API blackout?
sometimes your little hometown thing becomes the world thing… like the beatles from liverpool or james corden from hillington, greater london
fucking nailed the metaphor
It’s poor branding, at least if someone knows Lemmy and they see a Lemmy link, they will go to it. Lemm.ee doesn’t intuitively look like a Lemmy instance to an outsider.
Hey, that’s valid. I just know space was a premium. Personally, I don’t think it’s as hard of a leap as you make it out to be. It phonetically spells out “lemmy.” I think anyone who is curious enough to warrant a search could figure it out.
That aside, you won’t find me on r/place. I want to stay off Reddit. Those that can tolerate it enough to vent their frustration and mourning while leaving a flag pointing where to go next… more power to ‘em.
If you have to make it a specific domain, reddthat.com seems appropriate
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Yeah didn’t Mali re-asserting ownership of the
.mlTLD create a bunch of chaos literally within the last couple days?They need to shorten it as the flags invaded, I think it was join Lemmy originally
I wouldn’t.
That website is confusing to the average user and makes no sense. Linking directly to an instance, doesn’t matter which, gives them a familiar UI to Reddit, and allows them to click “sign up” without issue. From there they can learn about instances and join a different one.
join-lemmy.org is confusing, and makes it seem like it’s some software you download to the average user.
It is the wrong instance to link to then, because lemmy.ml has severely limited who are allowed to join it. That would just leave much more confusion and antagonism towards the concept of lemmy than the join lemmy page.
There’s an ongoing fiasco with the Mali government reclaiming all .ml websites. Fmhy lemmy is already gone as they used a .ml. You may want to link to the org instead, just in case
I know, it’s better for decentralization to link to the directory. The Black Company tried but they were overrun by Italy.
LEMMY.MLis the “shortest” Lemmy link and we cannot fit anything more unless the canvas expands or the very loose Fuck Spez Coalition lends us more space.Might I suggest lemm.ee? It’s pretty short and doesn’t have any issues with the Mali government.
If there can be a consensus between switching to lemm.ee or Kbin, I’d love to lend my pixel to either of those.
I came here to suggest that. Already suggested it in the black company discord and the place join lemmy matrix, seems like the idea is picking up on the place join lemmy matrix
Stupid question incoming… what is this lemmy matrix you speak of?
matrix.to/#/#lemmyplace:data.haus - matrix chat for coordination for lemmy on r/place
Thanks! Never heard of matrix before so will give it a gander!
I had pretty much never heard of it either till this morin, maybe one or two mentions on lemmy.
It’d be pretty good if lemmy instances had built in image compression to save on storage costs for all instances. I hope lemmy devs consider it
Is it related to the news of us military secrets being sent to ml emails?
Thats just typo shit. The real reason is the contract ended.
Yeah .ml domains were free but I’m sure that wouldn’t last forever.
The guy that currently runs the .ml registrar is warning the US military that a lot of emails meant for .mil addresses are ending up on mail servers that he currently controls, and will end up in the hands of the Mali government very soon. He set up the navy dot ml and army dot ml domains years ago to intercept and discard those mistyped emails, but is renewing his efforts to contact the US DoD about the issue because he’s losing access/control of those servers when the Mali government takes back .ml.
Oh is that where that instance went. Was wondering what happened.
Of course it links to the domain that’s probably about to die in short order. This is why open source can’t have nice things.
Spend money on server and bandwidth? Yes.
Spend $9 on a reputable domain name rather than a domain name you technically “rent” from an unscrupulous registrar that eventually takes back domains and redirects them to adult websites? Thus leading to them getting sued by Facebook and bringing enough attention to Mail for them to take back the domains? Nah.
Lols :)
wait, really ?
Apparently Mali is pissed and want their .ml domains back
will it not be possible to register those domains again ?
*.ml is not a good domain extension 😆
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/politics/email-typos-mali-military-emails/index.html
It is also filled with tankies.
whats tankies, precious?
A tankie is a communist or Marxist-Leninist.
Specifically the authoritarian variety.
I lean socialist, but frankly can’t get onboard with classic communism.
All these ideologies are faulty, there is no one step solution for a well functioning society. Imho Scandinavian model is the one I feel is a good path
Noooo not .ml D:
That is awful; lemmy.world would be fine or join-lemmy.org or lemm.ee, but not lemmy.mlLEMM.EE is actually fewest pixels
and the coolest instance, with the coolest people on it
thanks, it’s true
Use lemm.ee or Lemmy.world.
Lemmy world already has a lot of users
we should now encourage users to use different instances
because that’s the point of using a federated platform
As an Italian I’m sorry, Lemmy is more important than our flag
Based
what is a LEHHY? ;(
A huch better reddit
heyoo
LEHHY.HL is the best of them all.
Mr LEHHY is this you talking or the liquor?
2023-07-21 14:10 (UTC)
Maybe I made the right choice when leaving Reddit.
Cool ! Paging @donnachaidh@lemmy.world & @TruckBC@lemmy.ca & @randint@feddit.nl if they haven’t seen this.
paging received! thanks
edit: Just did my part!
Is not there yet, but one can hope.
Isn’t lemmy.ml down due to .ml?
Congrats, you went on reddit and contributed to place just as spez wants.
More people being aware of lemmy on reddit is also good thing in the long run isn’t it?
Not r/Place imo, it’s 100% feeding back into reddit directly and is clearly bringing back even Lemmy users just to engage. Deleting comments or editing existing ones with comment about Lemmy or something and just leave reddit.
Or only contribute to “reddit alternatives” reddit. The people on there already, especially on place, won’t leave reddit for Lemmy that’s for damn sure. It’s a pointless advertisement and is just feeding into the engagement cycle
Disagree r/place always was what i showed my non reddit using friends and at the moment half of the people seeing place are twitch users.
Also i can’t think of better place to advertise the fediverse than a picture with fuck spez all over it.
We can agree to disagree. Have a lovely day
I appreciate that you’re actually respectfully disagreeing instead of deciding that someone with a different opinion than you must clearly be a Reddit bootlicker and a [insert more insults here]. Even if they’re still opposed to Reddit’s actions and just think the best anti-Reddit action is different from what you think it is. I’ve seen way too much of that on Reddit discussion on Reddit alternatives, so thanks for not doing that.
Yeah I mean it’s a matter of opinions not objective facts because it can truly go either way. I also don’t want to argue online :) pointlessly it ain’t my thing. Maybe that’s why I’m here hahah!
Have a great day
doubt using reddit for free lemmy advertisement is what spez wants
He just wants people at r/Place period. Whatever goes on in there is driving up reddit traffic. Pretty sure that’s what he cares about the most.
Anyway agree to disagree, have a nice day
Was gonna upvote, but it’s at 666 and I didn’t want to change that.
