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We are currently around 50k monthly active users. What do you think could lead to the next newcomers wave? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A few ideas from the top of my head

Flairs that can be allowed to filter content in a community
Major online communites (can be subreddits, or other communities) moving to Lemmy
Reddit removing old.reddit
Reddit banning people using VPNs (already happening, see [email protected] )
Lemmy becoming the reference source of knowledge for a certain domain

Second point is probably crucial, but I don't see any major subreddit wanting to move here. StarTrek is the exception more that the rule.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree. Differentiating NSFW and NSFL is a must have. Right now I have NSFW turned on bc I occasionally want to see Ukraine combat stuff, but I've probably had to spend like 2+ hours blocking all the niche porn communities which is becoming untenable as every day a few more spin up. And I love the idea of a welcome/starter pack for new users; that's the other part of Lemmy that's really lacking - finding the communities you want to be a part of (if they even exist on the fediverse yet)! So many communities are ghost towns, other topic-based communities have duplicates or triplicate communities on different instances, etc. my strategy is to subscribe to communities as I find them in my feed, but having an index of the most popular communities curated for new users would be a game changer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I created a list in a comment below, feel free to suggest any community you think should be there too