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Please, help us to better understand how we can effectively funnel reddit users into Lemmy across all demographics, leveraging the average Lemmings advantages like expertise in automation, ai and bots?
What tactics/strategies do you propose? Can we automate the process? Can we somehow add ai to make it more fashionable?
Linking to Lemmy threads on related subreddits for as long as Reddit allows us to
Don't? The more that come the more this becomes a centrist/conservative hellscape.
politics isnt everything, the more users lemmy has the better. stop gatekeeping foss software, youre only making those 'capitalist reddit pigs' wealthier
I find theres enough content here to satisfy my needs without it becoming an unhealthy addiction. Also it feels like my comment is actually noticed and sometimes replied to by a real person like me. Reddit relt unhealthy in those ways.
I bet their are a bunch of people here on Lemmy from before the reddit exodus that vomited reading that post.
First time I feel like being part of the locust.
"We can post about wanting to kill nazis on Lemmy."
Honestly, lemmy and the fediverse as a whole will have natural growth and thats fine - mastodon has been around for like 8 years and is only recently getting a small amount of attention and mainstream usage. Like take the long view - like the really long view like 15 years from now. It'll probably be huge, but until then we will just share memes and have a good time discussing stuff.
lmao get a life bro
I dunno, let reddit keep fucking around and they'll come over. More engagement is always good but nothing gets better when there are more people on it.
Post Lemmy content on Reddit on the same way X content is posted on Reddit. Those interested will stay.
I see marketing via AI tools and bots unethical. Many things can be done via conventional marketing.
Also, majority of Reddit users are teenagers. The older generation of Reddit has fled away. We must think twice what target audience we want to bring in. I don't want Lemmy to become a place where alt-wing anti-establishment political leaders bait naΓ―ve teenagers and take them into the rabbit hole (aka scenario described in The Social Dilemma).
We could improve Lemmy's features because this is an important factor in the next of content creation. For example: better sync, account migration, more intuitive UX, etc.
If you remember a ton of people left because for these reasons: Confusing sign-up (having to choose an instance), worse UX, having to use third-party sites to explore communities which aren't local, suffering from defederation (my main gripe with Lemmy)
Been a lot of negative comments but I agree that we need to encourage people to migrate here. Been thinking about that myself lately.
This link, /c/books On any Lemmy server must show an agglomeration of all "books" communities on the whole lenmiverse
Because without this, user are made to flock to the one big /c/books community on the one big instance.
This betrays the initial promise of Lemmy to be decentralized.
Without this, communities will mosly remain small and fragmented
Communities should be easily able to migrate Toa new instance. Users too, 5 clicks at most.
Moderation should be subscription based. A filter I subscribe to and apply, if I choose, to the raw Lenny feed.
They will leave when they reach their breaking point and not before. Part of this has to do with changes implemented by Reddit the company. Part of this has to do with quality of user generated content. Unless you are going to tank quality by making bad posts on Reddit or running a bunch of bots to do the same, I doubt you'll have much of an effect.
I suppose the only thing ~~Lenny~~ Lemmy can do is advertise and Reddit isn't good at allowing that so I've heard.
I think the only thing reddit has over Lemmy is the number of active communities, and not how big these communities are. If there's 10k people in a community, it's fine. It doesn't help if there's 100k.
But I need the diversity. I need r/soccer and r/chatgpt that are way more active.
The real answer is posting memes on Reddit with a Lemmy watermark so they feel unhip. But please don't, Reddit is currently keeping the Reddit users contained, and that's better for every other platform.
I think it would help if when people googled Lemmy the top results would be a familiar interface with posts. Not a bunch of information about what it is and how to join.
I feel the very specific community topic split is already affecting Lemmy negatively. So I think having larger, broader community topics (e.g. 'commuting' instead of a community for every single option to commute by itself), with more diverse content, interaction and of course more visible activity, would also attract new users.
Right now some communities are so specific, that by its creation, it's a filter bubble by design. And then of course you don't get a lot of content or interaction, as only yea-sayer get accepted.
Interaction requires different approaches, opinions, options and of course people who upvote them even when disagreeing. The reply box is the correct option when disagreeing, not the downvote. That's how Lemmy will sprout.
tl;dr Broader community topics for larger, more diverse and more active communities