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!
I’m still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.
I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are ‘servers’, ‘communities’, etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific ‘groups’ or ‘subreddits’ if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.
So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.
What I would like: Frontpage with generic ‘groups’ or ‘communities’ and my subscribed ‘groups’ or ‘communities’, all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with ‘techniques’ (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some ‘subreddits’ in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the ‘groups’ or ‘subreddits’
In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?
I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.
Soery if I got confused by your question, but isn’t it exactly as it already works??? For transparemcy I use the app connect for lemmy in case it has any unique features.
First of all, resdit had the same problem to a degree, there were similarly named communities + hundreds of communities for the same topi (think about pc gaming or something like that, there wasn’t only one subreddit, but one got massively bigger than the others and acted as a default)
Lemmy is sort of the same, when looking for communities search for volume, the ones with the most active users are probably going to be the “official” ones in a sense. I recommend using https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null
And also https://browse.feddit.de/
To search for communities by members, of course you can sinply type the name on a search bar and the communities/magazines will pop up.
On regards to the front page, there already is an equivalent to all in reddit where some communities from different instances pop up. Aside from that you have local, where it is a frontpage but only for those communities hosted in your instance. Finally you have subscribed, that is the equivalent of “hot” ok reddit where it shows you ONLY the communities you are subscribed to. All this frontline options are available on the browser as well as the apps, that is why I am confused by your question, is this not what you are looking for? Or am I misunderstanding something.
Don’t doubt to keep asking in case I wasn’t clear :)
Forgot to mention, but you aren’t supposed to choose a server/instance and stick with it, just use the search function and it will lead you to communities from different servers and sometimes different sites (for example, a beehive community or a kbin magazine instead of something on lemmy) don’t worry too much about in which instance something is, just subscribe to the community and it will appear on your frontpage.
You’re over thinking it, all you need is one account, then browse, the other comment before me had some good advice as well, but I just wanted to add for others reading this that while I understand it seems so at first, once you’re in and subscribed to a few things you do get your infinite scrolling experience, very easy.
Thanks. Guess I need some time to adapt.