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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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[โ€“] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I actually think Lemmy needs more work before it grows much bigger. The mod tools are really lackluster currently. And that was a big reason people wanted to leave Reddit.

[โ€“] Ashtear@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's tough to sell some of the niche communities without proper spoiler tagging, too. Need something easier to use that works on all platforms.

[โ€“] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Proper spoiler tagging is important

I Jerboa uses this format

: : : spoiler Title

Without the spaces between the colons, this is just to show what it looks like.

: : :

Title

This is with the spaces removed

[โ€“] Psythik@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All I want is the ability to block inbox replies when I say something controversial.

[โ€“] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

That would be nice, but for now you could just mark all as read without reading them.

I completely agree. I'm personally holding off on heavy promotion of this platform until we hit 1.0. If people join too early and are turned off by the lack of polish, they may not come back after it's fixed.

[โ€“] strypey@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

The mod tools are really lackluster currently. And that was a big reason people wanted to leave Reddit

Fair point. The same was said of Mastodon many moons ago. A lot of people put a lot of time and energy into detailed feature requests, describing the problem to be solved, and exactly how their proposed solution would work.

Given that I've also seen the same complaint about apps in other federated networks like matrix, maybe what's needed is a general solution? A website where experienced mods describe the problems they strike, and how social software developers could help them with mod features.