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!
Thank you for everyone’s efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.
I’m finding myself commenting so much more here
I don’t think content is the problem right now.
Its so buggy its unusable.
- Network error
- Java error
- Every 3rd action logs me out
- Cant subscribe to any communities- Pending.
- Forever Spinny ball…
Ive tried three different apps, same issues. This just isnt working.
I’m using wefwef.app on lemmy world and it works great. It might be a problem with individual clients or instances
Same client-instance combination and it’s unusable :(
I had issues with lemmy.world with comments not posting while using wefwef, I’m on lemm.me now and I feel it’s a lot smoother!
First comment after migrating from Apollo. Tried Kbin for a bit and had trouble navigating and finding content. Switched to Lemmy.world and wefwef and it’s real good so far!!
Really? The instance I’m using works perfectly. …probably because it’s special.
Oooooooooh! Lemmy-NitroSuperFastWow! That is a special one! It’s nice to hear they’ve got the special sauce over there.
I tried creating an account on lemmy.world at first and could never get it to load correctly. Try joining another instance - lemmy.world is probably overloaded.
Edit: use lemmyverse.net to look through the available instances, their rules, and their uptime stats.
I have always been a lurker but trying to be more active. Even posted in a few communities too!
I am doing my best to avoid lurking. It’s tricky though, I am so used to only commenting on things like once a month. Exhausting work I tell ya.
Same here, I wanna post but can’t get a good idea on what to post…
maybe dont sperg out over politics you can block communities stop defederating cuz thats exactly why im leaving
I’ll try my best to participate. I’ve always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I’ll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.
I wish someone would move over like the top 20 posts from r/Hobbydrama and create a Lemmy community. I would, but I don’t know how to contact the users anymore without my old app.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Well, it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. I, and most likely you, still haven’t figured out the mechanics of Lemmy and the federverse. Give it time,
Just like Digg before Reddit, we will soon adept. The apps will get better and things will make more sense.
It may look and work slightly different, but with a little work, maybe this will be the communities that thrives the longest…
At least until the ads, bots, and CEOs begin infesting our home again. then I guess we just got to torch it and build a new home.
Now go unpack your favourite content. Lets make this place sing!
Welcome home.
I’m pretty happy with the nicer community so far. Waiting on a few subs, but now that my reddit app is dead, eh. Pretty happy, feels like 2010 reddit again before new reddit, the eternal September of new users, and people being randomly mean. I’m seeing regulars from 10 years ago on reddit, now on lemmy.
I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform, so I’ll be trying my best lol
Flailing new user trying to figure things out. Is there an AITA around here?
There sure is! A few actually, but [email protected] seems to be the only one with real activity.
If you’re on a browser, you can search for communities with the search button in the top right. Make sure you set the Search dropdown to Communities and the Subscribed/Local/All option to All. The search can take a little time and it’s not predictive, so you may need to search a few times to see everything. For instance, I searched for both aita and asshole to see all the AITA communities.
https://browse.feddit.de/ provides a more user-friendly experience with real-time searching and filters for the different instances in case you don’t want to engage with one or it’s defederated from your instance. Plus it shows you how many posts and comments each community has so you don’t have to click on each one to see how active it is.
Welcome to Lemmy!
Can you explain the different instances, as if I’m a moron? Or direct me to a resource that explains it? If I’m in reddthat.com do I still have access to the whole Lemmy universe? I can’t seem to follow the link you gave me and don’t understand why …
Oops, I’m still trying to figure out the formatting for links. Sorry!
The full URL should look something like yourinstancename/c/communityname@articleinstancename. So since you’re on reddthat.com, for you to access [email protected], you’ll need to go to reddthat.com/c/[email protected]. If you were visiting a community that’s on your own instance, you can drop the @instancename part at the end.
For what instances are, think of it like email. You can have Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, or any other email client and can send messages to users on any other client since they share the same protocol/language. It’s the same idea here. Every community is hosted on a particular instance, such as reddthat or lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. Since all instances use the same protocol, a user from any instance can see and interact with content on any other instance (with an exception I’ll get into in a sec).
Back to the email analogy. If someone using Hotmail gets an email from someone using Gmail, the Hotmail user doesn’t actually access Gmail itself to read the message. Instead, Hotmail makes a copy of the message on its own servers for the Hotmail user to read. With the Fediverse, same idea - if you see content originally posted on another instance, you’re technically seeing a copy of that content hosted on your instance. And if you interact with it, like making a post or commenting or even upvoting, you’re doing that on your copy of the content, which is then synced back with the original copy. From there it’s pushed out to all the other copies on all the other instances that are synced to the content. This is what Federation refers to - separate instances hosting different content that all communicate with each other to make a single community out of all its different parts.
The exception to all this direct communication is defederation, which is when two instances don’t talk to each other directly (usually one cuts off the other). This means that users on those instances can’t see or interact with content on the other instance. Defederation is a pretty extreme measure and its use varies instance-to-instance based on the admins. Some instances are pretty quick to defederate (such as Beehaw) but most see defederation as a last resort.
I hope that made sense!
Great info. Thanks!
I’m a RIF refugee, stuff my content hole ➡️😫
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Thank you for your help! I feel so stupid, but I can’t figure out how to go to an address that isn’t just a normal link in this app (Connect). But I will keep trying and I’ll figure it out! It’s actually kind of fun and they say it’s good for your brain.
You’re right, it’s a pretty novel experience to get to learn a whole new social media app/site in the current year
I’m promoting my apps in here 😅💀😄
Yeah same here, I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform
