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 I’ve made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.
I’ve been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.
I believe it’s worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.
This is my first comment as a reddit refugee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just made my account today after sync died, and I don’t know what else to do so here I am lol
This is the way
Absolutely, I’m way more actively engaged on Lemmy than I was in the recent past on Reddit. I feel like the community isn’t too flooded yet, and conversation can be more easily seen. I’m very excited for the future here.
Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!
Yep, the perception of business and web traffic is what drives actual traffic
I’m gonna shamelessly plug a community I moderate (brandnewsentence):
For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence
I just saw a post about Avatar Ang getting pegged. What more do these people want?
I’m still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.
I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are ‘servers’, ‘communities’, etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific ‘groups’ or ‘subreddits’ if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.
So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.
What I would like: Frontpage with generic ‘groups’ or ‘communities’ and my subscribed ‘groups’ or ‘communities’, all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with ‘techniques’ (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some ‘subreddits’ in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the ‘groups’ or ‘subreddits’
In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?
I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.
Soery if I got confused by your question, but isn’t it exactly as it already works??? For transparemcy I use the app connect for lemmy in case it has any unique features.
First of all, resdit had the same problem to a degree, there were similarly named communities + hundreds of communities for the same topi (think about pc gaming or something like that, there wasn’t only one subreddit, but one got massively bigger than the others and acted as a default)
Lemmy is sort of the same, when looking for communities search for volume, the ones with the most active users are probably going to be the “official” ones in a sense. I recommend using https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null
And also https://browse.feddit.de/
To search for communities by members, of course you can sinply type the name on a search bar and the communities/magazines will pop up.
On regards to the front page, there already is an equivalent to all in reddit where some communities from different instances pop up. Aside from that you have local, where it is a frontpage but only for those communities hosted in your instance. Finally you have subscribed, that is the equivalent of “hot” ok reddit where it shows you ONLY the communities you are subscribed to. All this frontline options are available on the browser as well as the apps, that is why I am confused by your question, is this not what you are looking for? Or am I misunderstanding something.
Don’t doubt to keep asking in case I wasn’t clear :)
Forgot to mention, but you aren’t supposed to choose a server/instance and stick with it, just use the search function and it will lead you to communities from different servers and sometimes different sites (for example, a beehive community or a kbin magazine instead of something on lemmy) don’t worry too much about in which instance something is, just subscribe to the community and it will appear on your frontpage.
You’re over thinking it, all you need is one account, then browse, the other comment before me had some good advice as well, but I just wanted to add for others reading this that while I understand it seems so at first, once you’re in and subscribed to a few things you do get your infinite scrolling experience, very easy.
Thanks. Guess I need some time to adapt.
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.
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.
Okay, so I’ve been here for a few days and I’m getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I’ve already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I’d consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I’ve already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
Unfortunately none of these apps are made by large teams, most actually being largely done by one person so yeah there’s features missing because they’ve never really had cause to sink a ton of time into their development (and a bunch of them are also just new). Only real solution is you just have to wait until they catch up. Also there’s the existing Reddit apps migrating over, but those are probably still weeks away. But I can tell you there’s a lot of active development going on, it’s just that, with the exception of Jerboa which is maintained by the full time Lemmy Devs (who also have to maintain Lemmy itself) and the Reddit 3PAs maybe, we’re not really doing this full time and have regular jobs to go to.
I hope that my comment didn’t read as me complaining. I fully understand that this is different from reddit and I’m grateful to every developer working on lemmy in any capacity.
I just wanted to be sure I tried all of the popular options to find what works best before fully committing to one. Out of the four, liftoff seems to be the best. The main issue it got with it is that both accounts share the same settings. If I change a setting for one account, it changes the settings for the other as well.
I don’t mean to sound like a dick, but this isn’t reddit, it’s basically brand new. It hasn’t been around for nearly 20 years, and it has had mobile apps for weeks/months, not for over a decade. You gotta be patient, more features,more stability, more ease of use, all of that will come. Reddit didn’t even have subreddits for like the first two years or so.
If it helps, the Sync for Reddit dev, a fairly major player in the 3rd party app scene, is making Sync for Lemmy. They’re hoping to get something usable out in 6-8 weeks, and long term goal is to bring it up to and hopefully beyond S for R’s standards.
Try WefWef.App, it’s pretty great, quite reminiscent of Apollo: https://wefwef.app
Does WefWef have a way to block users? This is the critical feature for me. Way too many hateful people spewing disinformation out there, not interested in seeing it.
Unfortunately this feature seem to be missing for now. The dev has an GitHub issue open on it though so it is on the roadmap.
Is this coming to the Play Store?
It’s website that acts like an app. Very mobile friendly while not requiring an install.
Cool well… give it a minute, you know? Some of the reddit apps have been in development for YEARS. So you’re not going to get to switch and immediately have every single thing you’re asking for in an app because the user base was non existent until basically the last two weeks.
I’m in the same boat. I’m using Lemmy on Jerboa, Wefwef, connect and Lemmy.nz itself. Still haven’t found a favourite and run into small issues with all.
But there are updates almost every day, sync is coming as well, so I just stick around. It’s much better than Reddit in all regards.
Thanks, have seen it mentioned elsewhere, will try!
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Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I’ve subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what’s allowed and what isn’t in each. I’m not sure where to find the stuff I like.
I know how you feel. Been trying to find communities that kinda mirror my subreddit selection. I’m pretty sure more are going to come. As far as instances go, don’t think too much about for now. Find communities via the search function and subscribe.
Someone can probably explain the Fediverse far better than I could. Simple explanation though is that any instance you’re on you can see things from others as well.
If you’re looking for new communities to join check out:
Either link will work if you’re on lemmy.world. If not, use the https one. Welcome!
Shalom!
lmao I didn’t even see the typo until now. I was tempted to leave it.
Is New communities…. New…. ;-)
I would search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities because it searches all communities on all instances
Forgot all about that. Thanks! This should probably be pinned everywhere.
Go to the Communities tab, set it to All and then search for topics. You’ll likely get a list of relevant communities across the Fediverse. Yes this will likely include several identically named ones like [email protected] and [email protected]. You might find that there are ten of them, and two with more than a single digit number of subscribers. Probably go with the most popular unless it’s somewhere you really don’t want to interact with. Occasionally check out your Local (communities only on your instance) and All (communities everywhere on the Fediverse) feeds, and you might find some traffic you’re interested in. I don’t think we have one of those insidious engagement-powered algorithms yet.
I’ll plug “brandnewsentence” here if you don’t mind.
For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence
For others: [email protected]
Are you using any lemmy app right now? I’d recommend trying jerboa, atleast till the sync/boost apps are here in a few weeks. You can try to use the search function to find communities/subreddit.
You can think of an instance as a new reddit. So for eg, you can host a reddit called caboose and I can host one with my name. You can have your rules on what’s allowed on your instance. In addition, we can create a “subreddit” called memes on both our instances. You probably want to join the one with the most users. Assuming the meme community on the caboose instance has more users, I’d just join that. Once it reaches critical mass, that’ll become the default memes community on the fediverse! The people on my instance of reddit would just use the memes community on your instance since it’s all interlinked.
To start, I would suggest browsing via all. Joining communities with high user engagement for now. The niche communities will take time to migrate. In addition, when you search for a community, join the one which has the most users.
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.
Also don’t join ban happy instances like beehaw.
Beehaw is great, actually. Some things should not be tolerated.
I’m tired of basically every other place on the internet tolerating shitty people because of “freedom of speech” or whatever, poisoning the discussion and making it suck to actually participate.
It’s good to have a place where people actually operate on good faith, and not just to fight like everywhere else because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just look at how often reddit was criticized for being toxic. If you just allow everything, that is what will inevitably happen. You have to work to prevent that.
Like I said in another post. Reddit active monthly is 1.6 billion . Beehaw have trouble dealing with few thousand users from 2 biggest instances, lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Lemmy instances needs money, we can get more money by getting more users, which means more money going towards Lemmy and the fediverse. We need to start taking money out of the trillion dollar tech giants and the profits going towards instance owners, mods and devs that make Lemmy great. If beehaw is trying to make a instance to feel safe towards advertisers and give beehaw money, I understand that. However we haven’t reach that critical mass yet.
Beehaw’s fine, no need to promote one side of Lemmy whilst laying into another.
I appreciate the need for variety but personally value safe spaces for discussion over anons right to troll with porn.
The code base needs work to allow safe spaces to exist and integrate with anons trolling now that there are a few million accounts.
It seems much more likely beehaw defeded due to the accounts here lolzing about posting homophobic content everywhere, as the instance owner is apparently gay, & posting knobs all over the feminist spaces. I suspect your take that beehaw action’s are to generate income is complete fiction, it’s to limit the ability of fuckwits on the server as the current mod tools are shite.
Yeah miss me with the self-righteous, hateful toxicity of pre-2012 Reddit. I left because Reddit made the user experience horrible by shutting down better apps while their own was still abysmal. Idk anything about how ban-happy specific communities are here, but I understand if heavier moderating is needed at the beginning to prevent this place from turning into Voat
¿Por qué no los dos? That’s the freedom of the fediverse, freedom of association.
Is there a way to merge accounts so you can see everything in one place without switching? If not, managing multiple accounts is cumbersome.
Apps!
So far liftoff has dealt with this very scenario quite seemlessly.
Nice! Hopefully soon one of them can merge my Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon accounts into a single app. Kbin just needs to release some APIs.
You can view and comment in other instances (notice that my account is from programming.dev).
If you’re on desktop, you can see the equivalent of /r/all by viewing “all” on your instance. To view a community on another instance, you use the url: {domain of your instance}/c/{community name}@{domain of the instance of that community}
For example, I’m here and commenting with the url: programming.dev/c/[email protected]
I know, but in my view if I want the fediverse to become mainstream, we need a way for 1.660 billion monthly active users to feel free and jump straight into the fediverse. Admins will need to find a way to monetize their instance, like ads or fediverse awards. So the instance owner can be not only cover server costs, it’s will be their job, get devs on board for FOSS development, grow the community and make the fediverse 1000% better. We need to start small first, that means we need play nicely to each other— so users that come on this board can consume content from other instances about the confusion of defederation.
They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you’re a nazi. You don’t like it? Make your own instance.
Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don’t depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.
Cross-instance control of your identity would be nice but it’s easy enough to just make multiple accounts and manage them easily in your browser and every app under the sun. We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit.
No it’s not. And for every account you don’t have a shared history. You don’t build a community.
Also, which are those apps you talk about? Because Jerboa doesn’t seem to be great for that. Switching between accounts is needed and quite annoying.
We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit
No. You’re way more beholden. The adminmod rules it all. What you see, who they federate, etc and it’s all defended by rabid users because “if you don’t like it leave and build your own instance*”. It’s not about community but instance owner absolute power.
Doesn’t quite work unless you’re absolutely in line with whichever narrative is happening. The echo chambers are bigger and the consequential toxicity upon dissent, much bigger.
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Wait what’s happening with Beehaw?
Goodbye Reddit drama, hello Lemmy drama
New to Lemmy (I’ve deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I’m still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I’ll have a different user?
There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.
Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.
No benefit in join more than one server, unless you want to have more than one identity. You can post on any server, and subscribe to any discussion group as long as your instance is federated with them.
Your instance is only blocking the weird tankie one, so you dont need to worry about multiple user accounts.
You can check federated/blocked instances here:
Thanks for the clarifications, people! Another note, i was looking for an android app to use access Lemmy on the mobile. The app Litoff was recommended. I agree. It’s really nice…
I think you would have to have multiple accounts if you wanted to start/moderate communities on multiple instances. I…think?..you’re only allowed to start/mod communities on your home instance.
Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I’m really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!
Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!
I found this earlier today, I just went through and Re subbed to my favorite sub reddits. https://sub.rehab/
I used sub.rehab to find Lemmy communities that were similar to my favorite subreddits.
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Hello! I’m still familiarizing myself with the fediverse and Lemmy, but I look forward to contributing once I’m comfortable.
I hope formatting commands are similar to old reddit, I do love my citations :)
Oh hey I recognize you from way back during the Mueller probe - if you’re that same person. Always appreciated your informative comments. I’ll probably see how around the politics communities here then!
It’s cool seeing someone here that I recognize from Reddit
This is super helpful, thank you!
I got started with browsing the most popular communities (if you’re on a browser, click Communities in the upper left, then pick All under List of communities) and picking the ones that seemed interesting. Then I started searching for ones that mirrored my subreddits and other interests. One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you’ll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don’t be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
There are still some subreddits that don’t have an equivalent here yet, so I check back for those every few days to see if anyone has gotten around to them (I’m definitely not up for moderating myself)
As @[email protected] posted, you can also use https://browse.feddit.de/ to quickly search for communities and see their subscriber, post and comment count to gauge how active they are.
Welcome!
Edit: I just learned about lemmyverse.net which is an even better website to browse both instances and communities. Check it out!
Thanks for the run down, appreciate the detailed explanation! Great idea about finding mirror communities from Reddit.
One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you’ll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don’t be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
This bring back fond memories of browsing early Reddit lol
So do I have to subscribe to what I want to see on my page or is there a dedicated page showing at least the active/good ones.
Half of the time it either devolves into 6 month old posts or AI generated photos and/or porn.
I find the Hot view algorithm kind of glitchy - it always seems to jump to 2-3 year old posts after the first few. I prefer the Top views from the past day or week and the New view. You should be able to set your default view in your settings.
And like salarua said, you can switch between your subscribed communities, local communities (everything on your home instance), and all communities across all instances.
at the top, you’ll see three views: Subscribed, Local, and All. Subscribed is your curated view of communities that you subscribed to, Local is a view of all the posts on your instance, and All is a view of all the posts across the entire network
I think we should just be ourselves. We will all sort ourselves into groups. No need to impress anyone.
It’s not a question of impressing other users, it’s about making sure there’s something to read and interact with.
I always lurked on Reddit because there were so many posts and comments already. Lemmy doesn’t have that yet, so I’m trying to help.
If we all do that, communities will be able to grow organically.
That’s a valid point.
Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
Thanks for pointing me towards this. Loving wefwef. Works wonderfully!
Is it an iOS app? I can’t find it in the Android Google or Samsung store.
It’s a mobile web app, so iOS users can visit https://wefwef.app using Safari, then click the Share icon, the click ‘Add to Home Screen’.
I don’t use Android so I don’t know if there’s a similar process to turn a link to a website into an icon on the Home Screen. I just did a web search and found this website, which I hope is useful for you https://beebom.com/ways-turn-any-website-android-app/
(Also I’m new to wefwef and this is my first comment using it)
Yeah it’s pretty much the same. PWAs are great when developed well and cross platform. Unfortunately they usually are not developed well and push you to go to their mobile apps.
Seems like a good way to not have to mess around with App Store approval and stuff though
Sure is. Things like payment systems don’t require giving the stores 40% of their cut too and notifications / background / permission limits on apps. Unfortunately PWAs got the issue of harder for average user to install and thus native apps win.
Is it that hard for people? I just opened in a browser and hit the button to add it to the home page. Easy.
Should be platform agnostic, it’s a browser app.
I think there’s also an iOS app, but you can just go to https://wefwef.app as well
Looks great! Just downloaded the PWA. I’ve been installing of them, though lol. So far, I’ve got Jerboa, Connect, Liftoff, the kbin PWA and now this one!
Lemmymon - gotta catch 'em all!
Hermes, mon
Nah it’s just a web app that you can save to your Home Screen. Works on pretty much any modern device with a browser that way.
It’s a web app instead of native app. I’m using https://wefwef.app/
They said they are adding an android skin as well on the road map. I’m assuming you can simply use it on an android phone now, although I haven’t tested so could be wrong.
https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
I’m not sure how you do it on android but in iOS you can add it to your Home Screen and it opens up similar to how a native app would.
I would love an Android native app, but this actually looks pretty great. This and Jerboa are the closest I’ve seen to RIF so far.
Jerboa strikes me as RiF without the features and usability I liked about that app, at least for now, hopefully it gets better
It’s definitely got a lot of growing and improvement to do, but I think it has a lot of potential once it works out its kinks and can get through the backlog of enhancement recommendations.
Wefwef is great, very pretty :)
I come from Android land so I can’t compare it to Apollo but it certainly looks very good
Wow thank you for this, this really is the best app I’ve tried so far. Love a good webapp.