Edit: We’ve lost to South Africa. Please help with overwriting this r/ to c/ instead!

Top left corner of the green rectangle: (85, 228)
Template: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/placeLemmyTemplate.json

The previous one by The Black Company was too wide to defend against Italy. Let’s make this one! I know LEMMY.ML is not the full Lemmyverse but we don’t have space for JOIN-LEMMY.ORG now.

To use its template, install the r/place userscript (guide) and go to https://new.reddit.com/r/place/?jsontemplate=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FChaoticNeutralCzech%2FmyRandomImages%2Fmain%2FplaceLemmyTemplate.json&screenmode=fullscreen
or if you already have it, import one of these (either the URLencoded one in URL, or the raw one in plugin settings)

https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FChaoticNeutralCzech%2FmyRandomImages%2Fmain%2FplaceLemmyTemplate.json
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/placeLemmyTemplate.json
      • stevecrox@kbin.social
        3710·
        1 year ago

        If your goal is to advertise the fediverse You should have used ‘kbin’.

        People can go directly to “lemmy.ml” but the site might disappear due to Mali re-establishing ownership of .ml domains, also its run by a tankie which will upset some people.

        “Lemmy” provides 10 google sponsored results and then ‘join-lemmy’, the join-lemmy website has you ‘join a server’ and then presents you lots of options.

        During the first Mastodon surge one of their issues is people felt overwhelmed by the options and it hurt Mastodon adoption, so a single website does make a lot of sense. Personally I would suggest lemmy.world its a general instance and the admins aren’t linked to any extremist views, but you said that would be too long.

        If you put ‘kbin’ into search the top result is kbin.social, that makes it seems like a reddit alternate. It keeps user choice limited and brings them into the fediverse. That means people aren’t confronted with the complexity of the fediverse immediately and can learn and understand it at their own pace.

        So if your goal is to advertise the fediverse I would push kbin, if your goal is to specifically get people to use a Lemmy based website I don’t think you have a good option

        • scytale@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          The only thing with kbin is the lack of a mobile app. A lot of newer reddit users don’t even know there’s a website. It might be hard to convince those users to switch to kbin if it doesn’t have a mobile app.

          • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            I agree with this. There is at least five apps right now that are great for people coming from reddit, so Lemmy has that covered.

          • stevecrox@kbin.social
            95·
            1 year ago

            Maybe I am old but I don’t understand the NEED for a mobile application.

            The kbin website works well on desktop and mobile web browsers with no render issues. The lemmy mobile apps all seem to be “alpha” quality.

            Why is a buggy app better thana working website?

            I choose an application or website based on which one works best. For example I browse Amazon via the web browser on the phone since the mobile application takes 2-5 seconds to load.

            • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
              2·
              1 year ago

              Wefwef is far from alpha quality, and it is a significantly better browsing experience than browser, at least on iOS, where you have to disable content blockers entirely to get comments to load if you have one installed.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
          8·
          1 year ago

          I personally don’t care about Twitter like services and I think many Redditors don’t either, so kbin has some additional noise for us.

          • stevecrox@kbin.social
            52·
            1 year ago

            Clearly you haven’t used Kbin.

            KBin’s have two distinct views “Threads” (Reddit Style) and “Microblogs” (Twitter), the default view is “Threads”. You won’t see posts in the Thread view and you won’t see Articles/Threads in the Microblog view

            Its an option similar to Top/Hot/Newest its existence doesn’t hurt

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          84·
          1 year ago

          Personally I would suggest lemmy.world

          Please god no! A majority of the Lemmy population is already on that server. It’s presence on SEO and everybody’s insistence to use that server is already a problem with trying to push a federated model. The owner’s vain goal of trying to maintain the largest Lemmy server isn’t helping matters.

          We’re already in a position where, if lemmy.world went down, the Lemmy federation would be in a crippled state.

          • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            1 year ago

            Lemmy.world is by far the best experience for a new user. You can convince people to move to a new instance once they’re already on lemmy.world. Starting off in a random instance is much more confusing.

            • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              But, people won’t just move off of their instance for no reason. The general public is too stuck on the idea that Lemmy is one domain and that your account is important to keep.

              • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6·
                1 year ago

                Either there is a reason or there isn’t. If there’s a valid reason to move to a different instance ethen people will. If not, then what’s the harm in using lemmy.world? More importantly, people won’t move off of reddit if their initial experience with Lemmy is negative or confusing.

            • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Midwest.social is friggin fantastic.

              (I would have said “fuckin”, but we’re “Midwest nice” and don’t want to offend people.)

            • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Except for the problem that lemmy.world often runs sluggishly on account of the overload.

        • Fushuan [he/him]English
          143·
          1 year ago

          Please no I don’t want my instance to get overrun by reddit users :(

          I mean some are cool but if we overpopulate instances they begin having issues, have we not learnt from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml having tons of issues early July?

          • lenninscjayEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            But we’ve also stress tested and evolved lemmy as a whole because of those instances’ troubleshooting

          • Ben Hur Horse RaceEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            sometimes your little hometown thing becomes the world thing… like the beatles from liverpool or james corden from hillington, greater london

            fucking nailed the metaphor

        • PopularUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          It’s poor branding, at least if someone knows Lemmy and they see a Lemmy link, they will go to it. Lemm.ee doesn’t intuitively look like a Lemmy instance to an outsider.

          • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            lemmy.ml is even poorer branding, because the majority of newcomers who would attempt to join it will be turned down. At least on lemm.ee they would actually be able to create an account.

          • lenninscjayEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Hey, that’s valid. I just know space was a premium. Personally, I don’t think it’s as hard of a leap as you make it out to be. It phonetically spells out “lemmy.” I think anyone who is curious enough to warrant a search could figure it out.

            That aside, you won’t find me on r/place. I want to stay off Reddit. Those that can tolerate it enough to vent their frustration and mourning while leaving a flag pointing where to go next… more power to ‘em.

      • 133arc585@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        You can thank Meta for that. They sued the registrar managing several ccTLDs, including .ml, .ga, .gq, .cf, and .tk. Meta even goes so far to fabricate a conspiracy theory about the registrar being part of a cybercriminal ring; they feign concern and wreak havoc.

    • JshKlsn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t.

      That website is confusing to the average user and makes no sense. Linking directly to an instance, doesn’t matter which, gives them a familiar UI to Reddit, and allows them to click “sign up” without issue. From there they can learn about instances and join a different one.

      join-lemmy.org is confusing, and makes it seem like it’s some software you download to the average user.

      • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        It is the wrong instance to link to then, because lemmy.ml has severely limited who are allowed to join it. That would just leave much more confusion and antagonism towards the concept of lemmy than the join lemmy page.

  • bigdangle@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    109·
    1 year ago

    There’s an ongoing fiasco with the Mali government reclaiming all .ml websites. Fmhy lemmy is already gone as they used a .ml. You may want to link to the org instead, just in case

      • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The guy that currently runs the .ml registrar is warning the US military that a lot of emails meant for .mil addresses are ending up on mail servers that he currently controls, and will end up in the hands of the Mali government very soon. He set up the navy dot ml and army dot ml domains years ago to intercept and discard those mistyped emails, but is renewing his efforts to contact the US DoD about the issue because he’s losing access/control of those servers when the Mali government takes back .ml.

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.caEnglish
    962·
    1 year ago

    Of course it links to the domain that’s probably about to die in short order. This is why open source can’t have nice things.

    • professor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      Spend money on server and bandwidth? Yes.

      Spend $9 on a reputable domain name rather than a domain name you technically “rent” from an unscrupulous registrar that eventually takes back domains and redirects them to adult websites? Thus leading to them getting sued by Facebook and bringing enough attention to Mail for them to take back the domains? Nah.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Thank god it’s not lemmy.world. Far too many people think that’s the “main” or only Lemmy server.

    • notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy world already has a lot of users

      we should now encourage users to use different instances

      because that’s the point of using a federated platform

    • grill@thelemmy.club
      161·
      1 year ago

      More people being aware of lemmy on reddit is also good thing in the long run isn’t it?

      • Saturdaycat@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        Not r/Place imo, it’s 100% feeding back into reddit directly and is clearly bringing back even Lemmy users just to engage. Deleting comments or editing existing ones with comment about Lemmy or something and just leave reddit.

        Or only contribute to “reddit alternatives” reddit. The people on there already, especially on place, won’t leave reddit for Lemmy that’s for damn sure. It’s a pointless advertisement and is just feeding into the engagement cycle

        • knatsch@feddit.de
          71·
          1 year ago

          Disagree r/place always was what i showed my non reddit using friends and at the moment half of the people seeing place are twitch users.

          Also i can’t think of better place to advertise the fediverse than a picture with fuck spez all over it.

            • Elevator7009@kbin.cafe
              41·
              1 year ago

              I appreciate that you’re actually respectfully disagreeing instead of deciding that someone with a different opinion than you must clearly be a Reddit bootlicker and a [insert more insults here]. Even if they’re still opposed to Reddit’s actions and just think the best anti-Reddit action is different from what you think it is. I’ve seen way too much of that on Reddit discussion on Reddit alternatives, so thanks for not doing that.

              • Saturdaycat@kbin.social
                2·
                1 year ago

                Yeah I mean it’s a matter of opinions not objective facts because it can truly go either way. I also don’t want to argue online :) pointlessly it ain’t my thing. Maybe that’s why I’m here hahah!

                Have a great day

      • Saturdaycat@kbin.social
        111·
        1 year ago

        He just wants people at r/Place period. Whatever goes on in there is driving up reddit traffic. Pretty sure that’s what he cares about the most.

        Anyway agree to disagree, have a nice day