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How can we boost Lemmy membership? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Spasmolytic@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I'm really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?

I had my wife join, and she likes it, but laments the slow pace of new material in the communities.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not only the "base" instance IMO, most servers have wildly different communities.

There should IMO be some way to search for communitues from any server (and subscribe to them, which is a real hassle especially if your base server doesn't yet know about them). I like the endless flow of memes as much as the next person, but what I really want is a bunch of communities I'm interested in so that I can lurk, ask questions and eventually create some hi quality content.

[–] lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 3 points 1 year ago

Well yes you can search for the name of a community but not for the type of content, IDK like from all the descriptions.

Maybe a sort of indexer could do that...

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're looking for a different client. Connect has a perfectly functional search bar.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I search for a community in Connect it only shows me communities my home sever knows about.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if your server doesn't know about them then wouldn't you be unable to connect to them anyway?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's like the problem I'm trying to point out :-)

An indexer or Lemmy-crawler that indexes all the descriptions and stuff (maybe messages?) and make it searchable could be a road to check out.