I’m just sick of Reddit.
The communities there seem much more active than the once on lemmy, which is not a surprise.
However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc …, snuck inbetween of the community posts I’m actually interested in.
How can we convince the people over there to move away?
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be the change you want to see. offer alternatives to subs pissed about over moderation, ads and bot activity. some instances still let you create your own communities, like mine https://moist.catsweat.com
You can’t be that sick of it if you want even let go of the place.
Asking people to do something will never work, telling people how something is better will trigger their curiosity to at least take a look.
I think how fragmented lemmy is hurts it. I enjoy Mastodon more, because it doesn’t matter what server a person uses, you have but a single feed of all the people you follow.
But here on lemmy, every server has its own communities and might even be having the same conversations apart from each other. While reddit is a giant single space for each conversation.
If there was a way to unite feeds so that, for example, /c/gaming gave you posts from every community /c/gaming you are subscribed to or federated with (or /m/gaming for us mbin folks). I think we could really see a proper exodus from reddit as it becomes proper alternative.
and of course, the classic lemmy experience would remain for those that don’t want to do that. Much like old.reddit remained strong in the face of the site remake.
They are all available on every instance. It’s not different than having five communities for the same subject on Reddit. It’s worse here right now because so few communities have managed to “clear their orbit” yet, but it will get better.
That fragmentation annoyed me too at the beginning, until somenoe tokd me something along the lines.
“It’s like different reddit subs with each hsving their own mods and rules”…
So /c/gaming on instance A, and /c/gaming on instance B, would be like /r/gaming and /r/gamingfornoobs.
That’s a good point. By each being its own server with own own rules and mods, my idea would make it harder on mods of the communities if people are not even aware of where they are posting.
Does your interface not show the instance with the community name?
I meant that as an extension to my original comment asking for all communities with the same name from different instances to show up in a mixed feed.
all communities with the same name from different instances to show up in a mixed feed.
That’s what usenet does.
can’t. the ones that are still there wouldn’t understand how to use lemmy and the fediverse and they’ll just bash for the same reasons that bsky users bash mastodon. They want things to “just work” out of the box and are too lazy to figure things out.
“… too lazy to figure things out.” Yup, just like when somebody calls a plumber, or a mechanic or a therapist. Stop being lazy and master something in a field where you have no experience or desire to learn.
Not really the problem, some mods just bury threads about it, you can see an arrogant mod from self-host subreddit in a thread, attempt to plead to move elsewhere: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ (this was a week ago) You can see why some still didn’t by the replies, and lack of understanding how to use Lemmy isn’t one of them.
Why does it have to be people from Reddit? Reddit has harbored pedophiles and nazis for its entire existence! There are way better sites to promote it on! There are definitely some forums and software projects on github that might want to use or host lemmy in some fashion.
Just mention lemmy from time to time on other platforms; not to say “please come here”, but rather just to let people know that lemmy exists and has interesting stuff on it. People will check it out if they are interested.
Please don’t. I like not dealing with redditeurs.
Advertise one instance instead of just saying “join lemmy”
Blaze is doing precisely that - recommending lemm.ee, several initial communities to check out, the Voyager app, etc.
Edit: A major downside to recommending lemm.ee though is that it federates with literally all of the big 3. So someone can walk into e.g. [email protected] without knowing the first thing about what to expect there, followed promptly by leaving Lemmy altogether. Due to lemm.ee’s approach of making everything “opt-out” rather than “opt-in” it takes quite a bit of catching up to understand things e.g. what “instances” are and how to block users from them (Pro-Tip: in either base Lemmy or Voyager, you literally cannot do it, though PieFed, Sync, or Connect each offer that capability). It’s a bit like having an email account that offers no spam filtering!? Which is fine if that’s what people want but doesn’t seem geared for “mainstream” Redditors who want to come here “casually”.
For those, if PieFed was a bit better developed in its UI it would be perfect. Lemmy.cafe also looks like a great option (Tesseract on dubvee.org too except I think it’s only a single admin, and yet quite impressive nonetheless, though toxic people from Reddit would have a terrible & short-lived time there hehe:-P).
As I’ve been using lemmy.cafe for a while now, I might switch to it as my “curious new joiner” recommendation.
Assuming it is stable (there was some question about that due to its running beta software?), that sounds like a great idea!:-)
Nothing will ever be perfect ofc, and surely there are tons of alt accounts on Lemmy.World and elsewhere, but that seems like it would help ease people more gently into Lemmy, without having to endure as much culture shock as seeing e.g. the anti-Western posts constantly streaming out from the big 3.
Especially for a more “mainstream” audience - e.g. expecting things to “just work” - from Reddit and even more so people who merely search the internet.
And then if people really WANT to see literally everything, there’s always lemm.ee that seems legit great for someone who knows that going in.
PieFed seems even more ideal in terms of this functionality but… its UI definitely needs more than a little polish before it’s fully mainstream.
I don’t know how you have time to do so much to help build this place, but I am enthused to see it nonetheless!:-)
But wouldn’t advertising one instance backfire and lead to huge server loads on that instance?
That’s not a problem you have to worry about right now, it’s more so not enough people are trying out the platform.
Recommending the instance you’re on Lemm.ee is the way to go.
id go a step further and say you need to draw a sub to a specific community. its hard moving users though when reddit actually attempts to prevent it by banning you for trying.
Why? So moderators can come here and ban you from their communities if you don’t agree with their biased bullshit and politics? No thank you
Mods can’t ban you from their fediverse community. You could just post from another site. It is why fediverse is superior to reddit.
That’s considered ban evasion by a lot of mods
What’s your point? Ban “evasion” is a feature of fediverse, not a bug. In the fediverse, you are immune from rando-bans.
Anybody who really does deserve to be banned, will repeat the behaviour that got them banned. So for those people there is no point with ban “evasion”.
I don’t want the masses from Reddit to migrate to Lemmy. I want people currently on Lemmy to post and comment. More engagement is what we need. No one is going to move to Lemmy if they see the top posts are hours old with only 100 upvotes and no comments.
If they didn’t leave Reddit by now, they like the new Reddit experience.
There needs to be less one sided group think, but I’m not sure that’s even possible anymore at this point. Just look at the US and how they voted this year. None of those voters want to be on this super woke platform. The population on here are the minority and just need to get used to it.
What does ‘woke’ mean?
Constant in your face awareness of social inequalities would be my charitable definition.
Well if that’s the definition that doesn’t sound so bad. You’re saying that you don’t like being reminded of the truth too often.
The problem with ‘woke’ is that it is too vague to be meaningful.
No, I can’t stand everybody being offended about everything.
I’m fine with people being offended as long as it is something legit to be offended about. Sometimes people are offended by legit things and sometimes not. That’s why “woke” is to vague to be meaningful. I have to hear the specific thing to know whether I agree/disagree.
Engage with communities here. The politics and tech communities are lively enough, but niche communities are lacking. Give people a reason to come here who aren’t politics/tech junkies.
Lots of edgelords here like “I don’t want the reddit plebs here” as though they weren’t happily one of them a couple years ago.
Let them come over. Put the idea of federation to the test. Isn’t that one of the major features of federation, if there are a bunch of shitty people you can just degenerate or use a different community?
If federation does what it claims then it’ll only be an improvement.I agree with people saying not to force people here if they don’t wanna be (not that we could), but the people saying that folks still on reddit are there because they inherently prefer the reddit application UX is crazy. They prefer the content in reddit. And they have a point.
Folks here are way more insufferable than reddit. Just the other day there was a post being like “why do reddit users hate Lemmy?” And linked a reddit post about it. But the comments on the reddit post were considered, nuanced, and polite; while the comments on the Lemmy post were a bunch of neckbeards crying about how terrible reddit users are.
TLDR y’all need to look in the mirror.
Most people don’t change unless they have to, and rarely even then. You’d have to make it so that they can’t visit Reddit anymore.
Even on reddit itself, you can’t get people to move from a sick community with hostile moderation to the preferred community. /r/Canada got taken over by /r/metacanada what feels like decades ago, and they turned it into a post modern bigoted classist hellhole, but it still ranks far above the “real” Canadian sub /r/OnGaurdForThee.
Maybe better not to compete with existing communities. Develop some anchor communities on Lemmy that are doing their own thing on topics that aren’t well served on Reddit.
We already have the same problem here. Some of our major communities have belligerent mods on problematic instances.
We’re not solving that problem, we’re just making it easier to hide from it via defederation.
Of course we do. That’s my point. It’s not a Reddit problem, it’s a human problem.
