The “front page” of most instances are not interesting to average people or to professionals (e.g. local gov that wants to go open source, like those switching to Mastodon).
Part is lemmy’s hot-sort is basically broken as a ranking, another part is bad language filters, another part is that major communities here (fediverse, Linux memes, star trek memes, science memes, etc) are off-putting to out-of-group people because of so many in-group jokes. Its a hard fix.
This is a bit like asking “how do you cook meat for a lot of people?” Not only does number-of-people and kind-of-meat matter a great deal, but even with that info, there’s a million different valid answers and an entire sub-field-ish of science on how to do it.
Based on what little info there is, I’m going to guess that A B testing with groups of experimental features enabled would be best for your case.
Not only in order but also
For standard notes, its got an auto-export plaintext file option on desktop. Were you wanting two-way editing of plaintext? (e.g. Auto export and import)
I give a list of generic opt-out excuses when I invite people to an event. That way, if it doesnt sound fun to them, they just pick an excuse off the list instead of trying to make one up and potentionally seem rude.
Its simple, but surprisingly effective for staying on people’s good side.
Fair warning, I was only taking Hon’s word for it in my original comment.
That said, the magic term that will get you a flood of journal articles is “induced pluripotent stem cells ( iPSCs)” and this article a good overview/context to the work.
I’ll edit my comment to include the link
We can revert normal human bloodcells into stem cells and then into specialized cells like neurons. It was an incredible breakthrough several years ago that nobody seems to know. There’s been recent developments too
I only found out about it when I was talking to Hon (the lead on this project), and asked him where he got the neurons for playing pong, and he said “I got them from myself”.
Yeah I like it cause it’s got better UI’s than reddit and users get to pick. There’s a few features I’d like to add (I’m a dev) that I think would also make it better than reddit.
I do think the front-page is kinda uninviting with how much patting-ourselves-on-the-back there is (nobody talks about how great reddit is on the front-page). But other than that, I think better experience is where Lemmy can shine. The best part is each instance can try there own features to see what sticks.
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Agreed, in my original post I mentioned posts per day as a metric thats slightly closer to actual load. But its pretty hard to throttle number of posts, so I think users is going to be a more useful value.
If a server has really active users they can set a lower target number of users.
Eventually it would be nice to have a standardized way of migrating and backing up accounts to make it possible for one server to offload its existing users to another server.
I agree capacity isn’t the cause of outages. Centralization is an issue, and capacity is a way for a server like Lemmy.world to say “I would prefer less new users”
Yes! Lemmy.world (or any other big server) must manually add the-other-server to their “recommder” list. So the-other-server has to prove to Lemmy.world that they’re going to offer similar reliability.
There’s a posposal for an automatic user distribution system (original post here: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726). Showing support for it would be a big help!
Instead of blocking sign-ups we can have Lemmy’s sign up automatically recommend other servers.
Another developer and I already have a PR in development for it.
Here’s the idea in more detail: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726
Myself and another developer are working on something we think will solve this:
OP: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726 TLDR: Automatic User Distribution
Whenever someone goes to the sign up page, for example, on Lemmy.world, we:
The idea would be to not add barriers to entry for new users or require servers to advertise/add barriers to entry themselves.
I think we should ask the reverse questions;
New servers can still use their old/existing methods, but if they want they could “opt-in” by asking to be on the recommded-server list of Lemmy.world (or whoever)
Getting on the front page of Google is hard and Lemmy.world has done it. Instead of that achievement working against us (and having to manually tell/confuse people saying “please don’t just sign up for lemmy.world”) why not leverage that achievement to create a maximally-distrubted system. Cause we can eat our good-user-experience cake (Google “Lemmy”, click on the first link, put in sign up information) and still have our dont-put-everyone-on-one-server cake too.
I think both your idea, and the criticism in the comments are valid (and I’m really glad to see this kind of discussion).
One potential solution, that would sadly require a major technical change, would be for awards to cost hosting-resources instead of money. For example, if Lemmy used IPFS, then people giving awards could need to pin some amount of files for some amount of time in exchange for an award.
This means every award would make Lemmy MORE decenalized, which also helps with admin costs of hosting servers.
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