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.
I really hope that Lemmy gets stable soon. Have been getting lots of error messages, unexpected tokens, timeouts and some general lagging :(
check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit.
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man, the infinite repost loop on reddit was absolute cancer. please don’t tell people to go and copy it.
the promise should be that you can occasionally find or learn something new - not the reposts.
I don’t mean we should spam the communities with everything we can find. Only repost the good stuff. Be a curator. We don’t have karma here, so there’s no incentive to post everything just for the internet points. Reddit is just a good resource to find content that could make the communities more interesting.