I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

  • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    I think personally that we should just give it time. We don’t need to attract everyone and we’ve already got a lot of work to do.

    I personally believe that what we have today is enough to serve as a battery for organic, natural growth through word of mouth. We just need to keep going and convince people through genuine effort that we can do better as a platform.

    • treagod@feddit.deEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Most sane answer. Let the haters hate. You probably won’t convince them otherwise

    • deadcyclo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Not only do we not need to attract everyone, we cannot attract everyone. At least not short to mid term. If everybody on reddit suddenly jumped on the lemmy bandwagon, the whole network would go down faster than you could blink.

      • Lemdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        that the tankies under the bed aren’t going to get them.

        Are you really ready to make that promise? I have a pretty tall bed and I haven’t asked everyone under there what their ideologies are.