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Our local maker space has talked on discord. It's like 3/4 people getting blue sky and the rest are fedi. Lately people discovered the bridge so now everyone is sharing posts from both. The good news is almost everyone is off xitter.
Pixelfed seems to be popular with both crowds. Peertube is being shared from time to time. We have been talking about using our huge server cabinet to self host services like sdf does.
Lemmy and Lemmy style of posts are popular, but it's the same deal as reddit. Most are turned off on posting because of how much effort it takes to find communities. It's not the most organic.
About communities discovery, feel free to have a look at https://lemmy.world/post/25353190
Thanks.
One of the things blue sky does well is it's custom algorithm and starter packs. Both get a lot of people working on the platform day 1. Hour 1 on a platform will make or break it. And it feels more organic to find people/things to follow because it's part of your feed 5 minutes in.
Piefed actually does something similar by asking you what you like, then giving you entire categories with similar communities. If Lemmy has something like that, it would greatly benefit the platform.
Reddit does the same and is actually something Lemmy should be doing as well!
here's the Github feature request for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1807
Give it a thumbs up reaction so the devs know to prioritize it
I wonder if any 3rd party apps do this?
Thanks!
Thank you, interesting