Marketing can be done by anyone. :) All it takes is a little passion and excitement when telling someone else about something you enjoy.
Professional marketers can bring lots of skills to the table but nothing beats a good old fashioned testimonial.
Yup, it’s time to unsubscribe from Shower thoughts…
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Like… Coders code, and Marketers market… Do Barbers barb?
They call em fingers, but I’ve never seen them fing … oh there they go
If Lemmy code is written by people who love to code, Lemmy users can be shot by people who love to shoot
-u/spez
Stop it, get some help
I think better UI by default would be much more important. Right now the biggest issue is probably that people look at lemmy and find it intimidating due to its messy UI.
No. It not the UI. It is the pick a “Feterated Instance” stuff before you even know what it is. No one knows those words. It should just work for new users. Instances and federation should be presented later.
Thats part of why almost everyone joins lemmy.world. Easy rec.
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I also agree, accessibility is a key for new users
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People from Reddit migraiting over here right now must think “Wow, maybe I’ll stay on Reddit if this is the quality of content here”
I know there are well meaning marketing people out there, but marketing departments, managers, investors, HR crap, and the rest of the corporate parade are exactly what most open source devs want to avoid by working in OSS projects
What kind of people love to market? And are they just walking around in public, unsupervised?
They exist, but they’re not interested in FOSS, only in working for some hot tech startup.
So then we just need that first marketing person to market marketing Lemmy to the marketers.
“Listen bro, I have this new idea, bro”
Not even marketers love to market.