niche community will work?
I’m interested in your ideas and strategies.
additionally not quite related to the topic.
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to register on BlueSky, or rather, I managed to, but my account was blocked for suspicious activity a second after registration. Idk why.
Send them dank memes on Lemmy
The shitposting will continue until morale improves.
The platforms will push them towards us.
But to answer your question, my uneducated guess would be to setup “default instances” so people can join lemmy and check out the place and eventually find a instance that best reflects their values.
Transferable accounts as well. So tired of making new accounts everywhere I go
Well I have a lot of friends that used to use reddit but left for various reasons. I’ve been trying to get them to come here with promises that’s it’s like reddit 10 years ago.
But I think they are just kind of over it. Spend their time on other things.
Make Lemmy better and easier to join/access/use. This is the only way.
I’m surprised NSFW comms haven’t done this already. Idk tbh
Most of my IRL friends who still use reddit claim its mostly for porn. Which blows my mind as I never used it for that. They dont like the idea that most of the porn content on Lemmy is siloed away into defederated instances, and that they would need multiple accounts.
don’t attract individuals, attract entire groups of people. The idea of moving humans one by one when all of their friends are on centralized platforms will only attract lonely people, who won’t be able to promote the platform. The growth will eventually halt.
Move entire communities that are already connected: specific identities, followers of famous people (which should be onboard with the plan), specific subreddits and so on.
Brilliant insight. This is the way
Mildly unrelated point that I wanted to say here, ive found that I can now find the answers to a lot of my questions by putting lemmy in the search bar instead of reddit. There definetly arent as many results but they are usually higher quality than redits.
That’s great to hear!
My wife checks it out about once a year because she likes the idea. Her measuring stick is when you can get a decent feed by subscribing to communities instead of needing to browse by all
I mean you can only get there by actively using it though. By dropping in once a year and leaving she’s basically ensuring it’ll take longer to get to that point. Little small communities don’t grow until the larger number grows that’s how Reddit worked too.
cat pictures
Cat memes
How will they resist?
or naked bodies
I just link people to good posts I find on here.
You’re not going to get a typical apathetic person to change anything.
Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say “hey I’ve been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]”
ii suspect that most on lemmy have been moving from one platform to another since 1990’s because of this sentence and it boggles my mind someone repeats it like it’s never happened before.
Yup, interacting with and posting with content on these platforms is the best way, people trickle in to see what it’s like. I doubt we’ll ever have a big migration, the goal is long term sustained trickles
Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say “hey I’ve been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]”
In the mean time, post & comment. The more content & discussion there is, the more attractive it will be to others. If you’ve got a niche hobby you’re passionate about, get a community going or try to grow an existing one if it already exists.
I comment way more on Lemmy than I was doing on Reddit towards the end, partly because the people here are generally good to chat to, but also because I want this place to keep being good so I can continue to keep using it.
Post for sure. If you’re brave enough to make posts absolutely 100% get busy. Check the user MyNameIsAtticus for inspiration. Dudes been making a post every day about whatever hes playing, basically using Lemmy as a diary that talks back.
It sounds like the daftest most pointless self-indulgent bullshit, but I love it.
Hmmmm, I find that to be a fools errand as long as Reddit is “alive and kicking”.
It took a troublesome Windows 11 for people to start migrating to Linux (even though I firmly believe that the numbers of poeple switching to Linux are inflated). (I myself am a Linux user).
Or to be more blunt. Reddit functions in something that can be called Mature Product Phase, and/or Saturated Market. And as long as you have a big main Brand that isn’t suddendly making bad decisions, you’ll always remain a niche product. Take Coca-cola for example. For 99% of people the default choice is Coca-cola, not because they have a strong prefence for it, but because it’s an easy and safe choice.
People who drink other brands drink it BECAUSE ______________ . And as long as Coca-Cola doesn’t do something to give that BECAUSE to the average Joe there’s just no incentive to switch.
The same goes for Reddit. We’re all here because we have our own BECAUSE why we’re here. And as long as something doesn’t happen that would give that BECAUSE to the average Joe, Lemmy would remain a niche product.
That’s not a sign that there’s anything wrong with Lemmy, It’s just the reality of how the Market works.
Pepsi?
Do not force people to do it. It should be based on personal interest.
recurring topics. My answer won’t change:
- More quality content/comments. People will go where they find what they’re looking for. No matter teh sad show reddit has turned into it is still filled with quality content (even more so in ‘niche’ communities).
- Less preaching. Does anyone really think that by telling people they’re doing it wrong or worse that they’re being dumb (because they’re using this or that) we will encourage them to change their habits?
- Less politics. My very first impression of Lemmy was almost enough to make delete my account. Politics, not the most subtle one, and memes were everywhere. Not really the type of content I was looking for (I’m fine discussing politics with anyone willing to discuss it provided we can go above the mere ‘you’re wrong because I don’t agree with you’ or the ‘you’re fascist if you don’t hate what I hate’ type of discussion).
Everyone should be able to chose what they’re exposed to (including politics and memes, btw) but forcing them to taste it out of the box may not be the… most seducing default.
I think we need more of everything else (except Linux and Star Trek) rather than less politics.
I mean, if we could have as much content diversity as Reddit it would be great. But we don’t. “More of everything else” will inevitably come at a cost of the quantity of political stuff.
With that said, Lemmy has so much western politics that you won’t even notice if a quarter of it would suddenly disappear.
I agree with you, Lemmy is disappointing, but I try not to lose hope in people.
Same here. I just logged back in after not visiting for 2 years. And the first thread I opened was about Alex Pretti. Now I don’t follow the news anymore since I have an anxiety issue so I did not know who this was and there was nothing mentioning who he was. Until I came to this commenter asking who he was and seeing they were getting downvoted into oblivion and made fun of. Obviously I didn’t feel welcome at all.
Certainly, and I did not delete my account either ;)
- When mass migrations or issues happen(provided that the people coming are decent), be ready to share lemmy as an alternative?
Me and many others got to know about lemmy during the reddit API restriction and protests. I do remember stumbling upon mander.xyz before that, but I think I did not stick around much and forgot that account.
Recently, saw some others talk about lemmy when the Deprogram sub was banned.- Niche communities and useful information, as you already mentioned
Which are the good ways to search on lemmy. I remember reddit got popular due to being searched for tech issues and media recommendations.
Having the similar things here and them being available on search results would be good.
