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!
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.
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!
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.
Shalom!
lmao I didn’t even see the typo until now. I was tempted to leave it.
Is New communities…. New…. ;-)
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.
I’ll plug “brandnewsentence” here if you don’t mind.
For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence
For others: !brandnewsentence@lemmy.world
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.
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 linux@lemmy.world and linux@sh.itjust.works. 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.