We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.
Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.
Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!
Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.
Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.
For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.
Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.
Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!
I think it’s good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.
It’s the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it’s amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.
Damn good idea. I’m a gamedev and posted a hell of a lot of my work on reddit, so I’ve been hesitant to delete it entirely, because i have an audience, however minor, over there, and a record of progress and contributions to the community. But, as you say, i could just repost it all over here.
Honestly, I was hoping smarter folks would’ve figured an easy way to port subs, content etc or make it easier for user to bring their selected content to Lemmy.
I’m all for rebuilding, but feels like a missed opportunity.
I’m thinking about doing that. There’s no reason one couldn’t make a web scraper and just scrape some list of subs and run it through a particular mirror instance of lemmy which other instances would be able to federate with. It just seemed like there wouldn’t be interest in such an idea
I think it’s a huge opportunity. The three most valuable aspects of Reddit are: The framework - which Lemmy (and others) are hard at work at building out The community - people are fired up and heading over in droves The content - this will take years to rebuild.
If someone can tackle #3- I think it would be super valuable to helping people find one home after Reddit.
As it happens, one already exists, so I’m glad that I messaged folks. You can check out https://lemmit.online/ for exactly this use case, I believe
Let me send some messages to lemmy instance owners and see what they think. I know there’s a bit of strain in the federation, but if they like the idea, I don’t mind pulling one of my machines into the mix.