The problem is just when someone in the past said “you should join !”, you were always able to just immediately go to forum x’s signup page and sign up. But if someone hears of Lemmy, and goes to join-lemmy.org, there is no way to go to a signup page directly.

People should probably stop saying "join Lemmy", and instead link directly to the site/instance they suggest

Well yeah some of the people, but I think the majority (or at least a large portion of them) will want a similar alternative to switch to, along with an entirely new generation of people

I don't expect gas to be so much cheaper than electricity

It's ok to have a rule like this in case of abusers. But I'm not being abusive about it, I'm not using AI, and I'm getting many upvotes. The 10% rule is incredibly strict if applied indiscriminately.

Because if I didn't use Discord then I would be the only one in the community. Discord has a massive userbase especially with gamers. You give them a Discord link and there's a decent chance you'll see them join and post a message. Give them any other link and they'll never make an account, they probably won't even click the link to see it.

I provide links for Discord, Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Steam group, and GitHub. I see lots of people come in on Discord, but 0 on the others except for myself lol.

Only the few actual contributors use the GitHub, don't think I've ever seen a non-programmer submit a bug report on my GitHub or use the discussions or leave any comments on releases or anything.

I'm also on Moddb and NexusMods, got a few comments on Moddb, none on Nexusmods yet.

I also have Twitch and YouTube of course, I get small numbers of people commenting on those.

Nobody has even asked for any other type of community, Discord is just want they want. If I just wanted to talk to myself then I wouldn't bother creating a community/forum at all.

all this because of misuse of the latest tag and unwillingness to downgrade the version? lol seems a little excessive but hopefully it turns out good

Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

It makes me feel like I should be making the post to multiple communities, but then I feel like I'm spamming

I think proxy is accurate enough for getting new users to signup (when talking about servers that do federate of course)

but I do think server is good too

The thing I like about proxy or hub is that they imply you can access the other content out there and the choice isn't super important

Where is this lemmy-easy-deploy? I haven't seen that before, maybe if I read how it works I can figure out what's wrong

looks great, but it’s not finding anything for Deus Ex

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=deus+ex

but there’s 3 here

https://programming.dev/search?q=deus%20ex&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll