fixed your link to the community https://lemmy.ca/c/thebirdspapaya_snark
or !thebirdspapaya_snark@lemmy.ca
But you're right, motivated users will make it work. People who are just pretending to take a moral stand against Reddit will continue to complain and think up new excuses and questions without ever moving
related feature request: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318
more technical discussion here: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-3b86-activity-intents/4120/12
2026 or 2025? I thought it was 2025
I meant something owned/maintained by Valve, it's a name people can trust and would catch a lot of angry Win10 users switching
personally I don't need any specific distro, but it would be a big boost for Valve
I'm probably gonna go full Linux, I already run it on my laptop and my closet computer lol
I wonder if Steam OS will be ready for desktops before this
Some day LW will enable parallel sending lol, hopefully soon. I'm really curious how much it will help.
I never know what to do with these lol
it actually has quite a few upvotes too
What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user?
I don't think it's always easy to pinpoint UX issues and user friction. Sometimes these things just don't stick with mainstream users. I say it's worth a try to see which platform the average Reddit user will prefer.
But if you're gonna use from a phone, Lemmy's selection of mobile apps is unbeatable.
The rate of growth does matter yea. If an instance gets worried, they can lock signups. Slow growth means the software has time to improve as they notice issues.
Lemmy had many issues scaling before, except Lemmy had huge surges with the Reddit API blackouts.
If people start recommending PieFed now, it's on their own terms instead of a massive wave. They can backoff if they get too many users.
I think it's unlikely that they would attract such a large number of users with 1 post on r/RedditAlternatives or something. Lemmy gets spammed everywhere and we usually don't even gain 1000 users a day overall across all instances.
There's already been some comments about PieFed and they didn't result in huge surges.
I think writing these things may not be as easy as it seems, or the good writers just aren't volunteering. Anyone is welcome to take a shot at it as the docs are open source on Github, make some pull requests!
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/users/01-getting-started.md