This post is inspired by a conversation I had with another user earlier that, after some reflection, raised an interesting point.
When telling a user about Lemmy, trying to bring them into the fold if you will, what would be the best go to link? Think of reddit.com/r/all, but for Lemmy.
In theory, any instance will work as long as it has a large enough user base to have people subscribed to other large isntances, but having a solid landing page to point new users towards definitely has some merit.
Thoughts?
Well, since the benchmark is reddit, something like the below would likely be the best
Tell them to look at the communities tab 😉
Hey that’s my site 😁 I’m looking to add a “join a server” page and make it similar to the join Lemmy one with recommended servers
I’m now also thinking about making the communities list the default…
I’d send them a link to the instance I’m hosting lol. If I weren’t, I’d probably direct them to join-lemmy.org with the explanation that any instance showcased there is probably good enough.
This is the right answer! 👍
I’ve sent a whole bunch of people to Lemmy.ca from local contacts. There’s enough hockey content that it works for anyone I know here.
We probably need a basic politically correct, partisan explanation of differences between major instances on a main page. If hosts are willing, maybe even some basic details about their situation, experience, and intentions. With all the instances, it would be ideal if the potential new user could clearly see stuff like the host’s projected ability to scale. If you’ve got a home lab, scaling is very different than if you’re running the instance on Akamai. Maybe also note if the host has other federated services they host.
Something like this, perhaps?
https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1
It shows what’s hot across all communities on Lemmy.world, which is a pretty big instance, as far as I know. If they’re interested in joining a Lemmy server, they could probably join Lemmy.world, but they may wish to try a different one. In that case, the following is a good place to start.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Hope that helps.
It’s not an instance, but what about https://join-lemmy.org/ ?
kbin.social <- take the easy path. Fight me!
I would totally use and recommend kbin to everyone but only after a few days. The server still crashes a lot. The dev is doing their best though and I can’t wait to go back when things settle down!
