I’m just sick of Reddit.
The communities there seem much more active than the once on lemmy, which is not a surprise.
However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc …, snuck inbetween of the community posts I’m actually interested in.
How can we convince the people over there to move away?
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Why? So moderators can come here and ban you from their communities if you don’t agree with their biased bullshit and politics? No thank you
Mods can’t ban you from their fediverse community. You could just post from another site. It is why fediverse is superior to reddit.
That’s considered ban evasion by a lot of mods
What’s your point? Ban “evasion” is a feature of fediverse, not a bug. In the fediverse, you are immune from rando-bans.
Anybody who really does deserve to be banned, will repeat the behaviour that got them banned. So for those people there is no point with ban “evasion”.
There are already some communities with the same tooic, but without much interaction, so I was mainly refering to joining existing ones.
However, even if that happens, one can simply go ahead and create a new community with normal mod behavior.
Also report on [email protected]
I don’t want the masses from Reddit to migrate to Lemmy. I want people currently on Lemmy to post and comment. More engagement is what we need. No one is going to move to Lemmy if they see the top posts are hours old with only 100 upvotes and no comments.
If they didn’t leave Reddit by now, they like the new Reddit experience.
Most of them are bots anyway and I really wouldn’t want “everyone” to find out about and use lemmy because that would be the downfall of lemmy.
They allegedly remove posts/comments about lemmy? And even if they don’t, I feel like it could have the opposite effect. People would see those posts just like ads/promotion/spam. Which would give lemmy a bad rep. Unless something big happens, like some big community switching to lemmy, or someone with a big following promotes lemmy, it will hardly see a big spike in user count.
The only way is to passively “advertise” it. Maybe add the link to your lemmy account in your reddits about you section, if you are making OC add your lemmy handle there as well…
And the last way, which is most likely the best way to do it, is to post good content on lemmy, keep communities alive. And people will eventually join.
Ask and answer their popular questions again in here. Also, a popular search engine should list the thread on Lemmy.
I’m honestly not sure I want the majority of reddit users coming to lemmy. Especially as a woman. There’s just so much more nastiness on reddit. I get that sometimes the content on Lemmy slows down or gets stale, but that seems like a reasonable price to pay to avoid people with chronic interpersonal problems and no healthy emotional outlet. I think every exchange I’ve had on Lemmy has at least been respectful and I can’t recall ever feeling that way on reddit.
That has not always been my experience, although I can see why you on Lemmy.World would say so (bc it defederates from lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, where most of the hostility across the Fediverse concentrates), but indeed the average interaction here is much more positive than on Reddit (even though the worst, e.g. if you ever comment in [email protected], is significantly more negative than Reddit ever was allowed to become by the admins).
can’t. the ones that are still there wouldn’t understand how to use lemmy and the fediverse and they’ll just bash for the same reasons that bsky users bash mastodon. They want things to “just work” out of the box and are too lazy to figure things out.
“… too lazy to figure things out.” Yup, just like when somebody calls a plumber, or a mechanic or a therapist. Stop being lazy and master something in a field where you have no experience or desire to learn.
Not really the problem, some mods just bury threads about it, you can see an arrogant mod from self-host subreddit in a thread, attempt to plead to move elsewhere: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ (this was a week ago) You can see why some still didn’t by the replies, and lack of understanding how to use Lemmy isn’t one of them.
Which communities? I personally find most of my favorite communities to be better in lemmy than on Reddit, with a few exceptions.
Buildapcsales gamedeals boardgamedeals etc. it was nice when they still have Api access because you could track prices.
Well there are some video game ones.
Ya I just got to reddit for specific video game ones now basically. Or specific TV shows.
If the community doesn’t exist, have you tried creating one?
If it does exist, have you tried posting there?
Believe me or not that’s how it starts.
I’ve thought about it…
A few niche examples:
/r/generative /r/musicians /r/wildernessbackpacking /r/tropicalweather /r/analogcommunity /r/heavymind
Good luck convincing the non-technical users there to come here. This place is currently great for interests catered to programmers and sysadmins (speaking as one!), but artist and hobby communities are seriously lacking.
If the community doesn’t exist, have you tried creating one?
If it does exist, have you tried posting there?
Believe me or not that’s how it starts.
Anything niche by computer geek standards So, like, anything from normie interests to things that are so niche that you need 30 million MAU to have an active space.
Stop using Reddit.
be the change you want to see. offer alternatives to subs pissed about over moderation, ads and bot activity. some instances still let you create your own communities, like mine https://moist.catsweat.com
Asking people to do something will never work, telling people how something is better will trigger their curiosity to at least take a look.
Where does the believe even originate from, that Redditors are any different than Lemmings? Basically the same people minus the youngest, because they stick with using Reddit. They might or might not migrate eventually.
Make communities here bigger by contributing and spread the word of Reddit alternative. Make search engines find Lemmy content and then it goes on it’s own. I guess Bluesky will push the Fediverse, but I wonder how long people will stick to a Twitter esque when they could have Lemmy full text conversations and tree structures?
Engage with communities here. The politics and tech communities are lively enough, but niche communities are lacking. Give people a reason to come here who aren’t politics/tech junkies.
Why bother?
Reddit isn’t Lemmy. Lemmy is Lemmy.
Enjoy who’s here. Hi. I’m GhiLA.
Most people don’t change unless they have to, and rarely even then. You’d have to make it so that they can’t visit Reddit anymore.
Even on reddit itself, you can’t get people to move from a sick community with hostile moderation to the preferred community. /r/Canada got taken over by /r/metacanada what feels like decades ago, and they turned it into a post modern bigoted classist hellhole, but it still ranks far above the “real” Canadian sub /r/OnGaurdForThee.
Maybe better not to compete with existing communities. Develop some anchor communities on Lemmy that are doing their own thing on topics that aren’t well served on Reddit.
We already have the same problem here. Some of our major communities have belligerent mods on problematic instances.
We’re not solving that problem, we’re just making it easier to hide from it via defederation.
Of course we do. That’s my point. It’s not a Reddit problem, it’s a human problem.
