The only successful example I found the other day was https://old.reddit.com/r/FloatingIsFun/, now !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io
If a few other communities could move over there, that would help make the platform more active.
There is a banned subreddit that recently moved here (I won’t mention it to avoid them getting raided, but if you browse All you probably know which one I’m talking about), that was very interesting, and some proof that the current tools (the websites, the mobile apps, the interfaces) could work for people outside of the usual “tech / Linux / FOSS” bubble.
What do you think?
We had a few such attempts in the past, but experience shows that Reddit mods have limited influence on that. Even if they are really trying to move over people it ends up being only a small minority and after a few weeks/months they all go back.
What we need is more homegrown communities that grow naturally by attracting people.
What we need is more homegrown communities that grow naturally by attracting people.
That’s probably the biggest issue.
How are people supposed to hear about Lemmy at the moment?
- a few subs like /r/RedditAlternatives
- a comment that might mention it, but quickly removed or deleted
Reddit got really popular when it started to become the “one place to find answers about anything”. And it still is to an extend. While Reddit is still there, it will be hard for Lemmy to really emerge.
We’ve been stagnating at 48k-50k for the last few months, there is a risk of more and more people leaving over time, leading to the end of the platform
I won’t leave until I am the only one left
Honestly, in a scenario where most of the most prolific poster leave, I don’t give Lemmy a month before the thing becomes completely empty.
Laaate reply, but: 1) it seems to me there’s a big bloc of users who truly despise Reddit, and would go anywhere else but back, 2) there seems to be a pretty big bloc of users who are comfortable with the size and nature of Lemmy, and don’t want to go anywhere else AFAIK.
I just hope more come here. I miss the actual content. We do have similar communities, but there are less posts / comments.
I guess we all hope, but we can probably also take some actions.
With the natural user inertia, I don’t see people leaving Reddit in mass except if some communities start to actively doing it.
the only reason i visit reddit for nowdays are the fgc subs (stuff like r/StreetFighter & r/Fighters)
i also think gaming comunitys in general are a good fit, because they bridge the gap between IT nerds and a more casual userbase
Hi! !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io mod here. Thank you for the shout out! I’ll try to participate here from now on.
Sub.rehab can show you subreddits that have verified official communities on Lemmy, Mbin, and others. You can import your followed subreddits from Reddit and find their Fediverse counterparts quickly. It’s the best place I’ve found for Reddit users to find communities to follow here, even if a lot of them aren’t very active and their Reddit versions are still active too.
I think Lemmy and Mbin’s interfaces scare some people off. A lot of users don’t know that Lemmy has plenty of other third-party interfaces like Photon, Alexandrite, Voyager, and of course, Old.
Mbin lacks these for now, but makes up for it with the rarely-used custom CSS for magazines, just like Old Reddit, and custom JS too! I use mine to create a two-column layout with big thumbnails! Unfortunately, the CSS doesn’t federate and is only visible when viewing it on Fedia itself. I’d love to have even a Lemmy-like banner image on other instances.
For the daily word puzzle Wordle, !wordle@lemmy.world and /r/Wordle both benefit from having a bot post a discussion thread for each day’s puzzle as it’s released. I go there every day and post how I did on the day’s puzzle. I still post and moderate on the Reddit one every once in a while, but I tell them about the Lemmy one while I’m there. The recently-created !dailygames@lemmy.zip does this for several daily puzzle games, but I’m not sure if it’s a stronger community or just more cluttered.
Of course, we could remind Reddit users that the Fediverse doesn’t have ads! That was a huge selling point for me.
And when a Reddit community decides to go all-in and move here, they could consider a full screen redirect link like Old Reddit /r/Mei. I thought about using that redirect myself on my old subreddit.
I wish I could find more Healthcare workers. My computer skills make me a bit of an odd duck in hcw spaces, but the fact that there’s none on this end doesn’t help the isolation either.
