Dont forget to do your part by telling other people not on lemmy to try it. Its content has improved a lot so ask them to try it again if they didnt find communities they liked before. It will help the continued growth :)

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    766·
    1 year ago

    Don’t just ask them to try it. Don’t ask them to research or try to understand. Just give them a link to one of the major Instances, preferably yours, and let them poke around. Give some tips if you want, maybe some subs they can sub to.

    Don’t overwhelm normies with passion or knowledge though, they don’t care enough. It’s about using it and figuring it out as you go, for most people. So, just grease that process for them, that’s really the best you can do. Answer questions, give tailored recommendations, stuff like that.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      22·
      1 year ago

      And don’t just link to your instance’s homepage. Link them to content. Show them something they might want to take part in.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      For the folks I know, I’d have to give them a list of accounts and communities to block. I’m older, but tech savvy, as are most of my friends. They’d come here and see giant amounts of memes from several different communities, and a role bunch of Reddit posts copied by bot accounts with no comments, and they’d say “no thanks.”

    • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The fediverse and lemmy is installed collectively, it’s a matter of time. We need to make refresh it everywhere so it moves around.