Please, help us to better understand how we can effectively funnel reddit users into Lemmy across all demographics, leveraging the average Lemmings advantages like expertise in automation, ai and bots?
What tactics/strategies do you propose? Can we automate the process? Can we somehow add ai to make it more fashionable?
Create content and participate to make Lemmy more attractive.
Best I can do is talk about Linux.
In German.
So more OpenSuSE, gotcha.
Then do that. There are many Linux communities on Lemmy, participate in them and try to make them a better place by contributing useful comments and posts.
He’s making a joke, because if you look at /all communities it can be like half posts from various Linux communities at times
This is the way
In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.
Seriously, I’m not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a *hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That’s compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.
My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that’s a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it’s probably going to dry up.
Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were ‘all filled up’ already.
I see some people here saying they don’t want Lemmy to grow. They’re right as far as growth for the sake of growth. That said, there’s value in a bigger user base because it allows for niche communities that otherwise wouldn’t have enough activity to be worthwhile.
So in that spirit, I think actively posting and commenting about the subjects you’re interested in is the best way to help develop active communities. If in conversation IRL we find ourselves saying, “I heard about X on lemmy” or “This tutorial on lemmy helped me figure out an issue with Y” then that’s the best advertisement for new users.
Likewise I think reddit posts are favored when people do web searches because it’s humans having a real discussion, not seo trying to sell something. As there’s more content on lemmy I’d hope web searches will start bringing people here. (And as platforms like reddit make their product worse to make more profit fewer people will go there)
Yup. I don’t post on reddit anymore but lemmy is still relatively empty so I still search for stuff on reddit.
In general, as somebody who migrated from Reddit in June, I’d say that the best of us are already here. I’ve only run into a handful of shitty trolls here these past 4 months. The smaller userbase also results in fewer posts and comments, so I spend less time scrolling through endless content. Both of these aspects have led to me feeling significantly happier and present. You’re right about niche communities being too small here, but I would rather have it this way than deal with proudly ignorant, stupid, hateful dipshits relishing in being loud assholes in a thread with thousands of users learning to be loud assholes like them.
In my opinion, if people want Reddit, they should go to Reddit. The fediverse is the way that it is, and of course I’m open to improvements, but fundamental alterations to the entire identity is not something I would like to see. I’m happy to engage in discourse and disagree productively, which is much more possible here than it ever was on Reddit.
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I got the opposite conclusion from how Facebook managed to take marketshare from MySpace. They allowed bots to take content from the other service and it made it easier to switch
Just stop going to Reddit and start contributing valuable content on Lemmy. If Lemmy is a good network, people will come here on their own.
Using AI bots to spam outsiders with Lemmy info is very likely to have the opposite effect.
Yea i remember how much i hated reddit as a digg user, every annoying bitch was like “i read this on reddit”. Then diggv4 shit the bed and i migrated for the content. Dont be an annoying cunt it will only drive people away. Edit: found the reddit user
Please don’t actually
This was my thought too. Organic growth is better. I like the vibe on Lemmy far more than Reddit which has turned into a Instagram clone.
Exactly right.
Post more from humans, no ai content
As an AI language model, I concur with this assessment.
The reddit posts I saw made it seem WAY more complicated then it was.
It made it seem I was going to have to make dozens of different users. That it was going to be an issue posting to different instances. That I was going to need several programs to talk to eachother…
Mean while. I signed up. Sync told me. ‘hey! You just got lemmy - I already work for that!’ and here I am. Sometime I forget this isn’t reddit.
Seriously. Whatever flyers you want to spread for reddit needs to show how EASY it is to come here.
Speaking of that. Do we lemmings have a dedicated post we can share to redditor who are ready to switch?
"Join Lemmy now!
Lemmy is like reddit but better:
- easier to use
- no ads
- more fun
click here to join https://Lemmy.World/Login "
For starters, the signup shouldn’t happen on one central server
Would you be willing to create such a post/Share link?
At this point, anyone who was part of the 3rd party app protests who stayed and didn’t make the switch clearly didn’t want to jump here, so they’ll probably be on r€dd!t for a long time.
Please don’t, we don’t need to ruin this site as well.
Stop pulling the ladder up behind you. Don’t lock the door once you are in. Don’t advocate for Anti-Immigration when you are fresh off the boat yourself. 😂
Don’t hold me to your standards, I’ll think for myself.
I don’t want another Reddit, because Reddit was shit for years because of all the peons flooding the gates.
Some immigration is good, but too much is bad. Just like the real world.
Accusing me of gate keeping? Look in a mirror. You are the one with a narrow view of reality here.
And this is why lemmy is cringe
That was deep and blocking you makes everyone’s life better
because of all the peons flooding the gates.
All of us started out as 🕊️peons 🌊 flooding
gates. 😘 😜Quite true, why should that change anything? I’m here now and recognize it’s a fairly nice place and it doesn’t need a user base the size of Reddit. Come with a real argument to support your narrative, mine is that too many people will turn this place to shit as well. Logical fallacy vs reality in a nutshell this conversation.
Ok bud
Oh, I can assure you I am not your bud.
Alright dude
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Not required, reddit had since activated self destruction mode and still on going
Dont
Don’t focus only on reddit users. That unnecessarily narrows the scope of the issue.
Lemmy has significant barriers to joining that other sites or services do not have. And then once people manage to join there are basic usability issues with simple things like finding communities.
Until these core issues are solved it feels pointless to try to target users from a specific site.
I’m arguing against recruiting people over en mass. I feel natural growth is a healthier alternative, as a stagnant environment is also unhealthy.
Mod tools. Steal the moderators and the communities will follow
Cross post from Lemmy to Reddit. But we must raise the question if we really want that. Reddit became toxic over the past few years, and I think people on Lemmy right night are in general different. Do we want to turn Lemmy into Reddit?
