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?
Then do that. There are many Linux communities on Lemmy, participate in them and try to make them a better place by contributing useful comments and posts.
It refuses to install… I got a dell vostro 3468 running on legacy BIOS. I’m coming from windows and there’s an NTFS partition full of data I’m trying to preserve…
The guided partitioning errors out(usually runs out of space, and no packages can continue installing so they throw errors), and using the expert partitioning throws a couple of grub errors at the end when it’s installing grub
It was really good when I last tried it on another device
In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.
Seriously, I’m not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a hugely larger proportion of eyes on it. That’s compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.
My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that’s a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it’s probably going to dry up.
Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were ‘all filled up’ already.
Users don’t care if Lemmy or the Fediverse is more “free” or which technical features are superior to what Reddit offers.
Most users want a place to find content and basically doomscroll. You want users that will submit new content, not just lurkers. So in order to attract people here, the best way to do so is to submit new content.
Wow, do so many people believe Lemmy user are that much different than Reddit user? I mean I can totally forego all the bots, incels and astroturfing, but I do believe they migrate automatically once a platform got big enough. I don’t think there’s any way to stop that unless you want to keep Lemmy small forever.
Lemmy needs to grow because Reddit needs to go. Reddit has become too powerful for a greedy company like that.
I would be very interested to see the percentage of lemmy users that were reddit users right up until the point they switched primary platforms. I have to imagine that number is near 99%.
I’d like to echo this point. As soon as you set your objective to pull in Reddit users, you’ve set yourself up as the “Reddit alternative”, you’ll be chasing Reddit features and attempting to please the Reddit users. To succeed at this game is to essentially end up creating Reddit, but never surpassing.
In my opinion, Lemmy needs to have a clear mindset on what Lemmy is and what it isn’t, then stick to that.
It would be a real luxury to have that clear mindset, but I don’t think that’s possible.
Lemmy is something like a teenager. It needs time for its own identity and culture to coalesce. For now I think the best we can do is to avoid the notion that we’re alt-reddit.
Wow, do so many people believe Lemmy user are that much different than Reddit user?
Some are, but some are even worse than reddit, for example the cursed reddit custom of profile downvote… actually never happened to me on reddit but here it’s constant.
Reddit made it so you can’t downvote from a profile page, it simply wouldn’t count. You had to open every comment individually and vote on them. Sorry that it is happening to you. Maybe make a new account, karma isn’t that important, yet we all feel more welcome if there’s positive votes.
Nah i don’t give a shit about karma i’m just genuinly depressed people are this angry and petty. But then again it’s not really surprising since it’s mostly coming from the US bootlickers.
It also skews the point of downvotes even as disagree button.
Reddit made it so you can’t downvote from a profile page, it simply wouldn’t count.
I didn’t know that lol, support my theory of some places (.world for example) being really worse than reddit.
I see some people here saying they don’t want Lemmy to grow. They’re right as far as growth for the sake of growth. That said, there’s value in a bigger user base because it allows for niche communities that otherwise wouldn’t have enough activity to be worthwhile.
So in that spirit, I think actively posting and commenting about the subjects you’re interested in is the best way to help develop active communities. If in conversation IRL we find ourselves saying, “I heard about X on lemmy” or “This tutorial on lemmy helped me figure out an issue with Y” then that’s the best advertisement for new users.
Likewise I think reddit posts are favored when people do web searches because it’s humans having a real discussion, not seo trying to sell something. As there’s more content on lemmy I’d hope web searches will start bringing people here. (And as platforms like reddit make their product worse to make more profit fewer people will go there)
In general, as somebody who migrated from Reddit in June, I’d say that the best of us are already here. I’ve only run into a handful of shitty trolls here these past 4 months. The smaller userbase also results in fewer posts and comments, so I spend less time scrolling through endless content. Both of these aspects have led to me feeling significantly happier and present. You’re right about niche communities being too small here, but I would rather have it this way than deal with proudly ignorant, stupid, hateful dipshits relishing in being loud assholes in a thread with thousands of users learning to be loud assholes like them.
In my opinion, if people want Reddit, they should go to Reddit. The fediverse is the way that it is, and of course I’m open to improvements, but fundamental alterations to the entire identity is not something I would like to see. I’m happy to engage in discourse and disagree productively, which is much more possible here than it ever was on Reddit.
I like that there is one instance dedicated to that. Individuals can subscribe if they like, but overall generally a good idea to avoid in other instances
I got the opposite conclusion from how Facebook managed to take marketshare from MySpace. They allowed bots to take content from the other service and it made it easier to switch
The problem with Lemmy is that the demographic is so skewed. Its mostly hyper-tech nerds mixed with political activists. I like tech and politics but its a bit of a toxic brew and I haven’t found myself having that much fun over here. On reddit, there’s comedy and people not being angry because someone isn’t using linux. Lemmy often feels like a glorified arstechnica link aggregator. Its just kind of a sad place compared to reddit. The other day u/shittymorph made some posts that made me laugh super hard. I haven’t laughed at anything over here, because well most of you aren’t funny, haha me neither so don’t feel attacked. But lemmy not attracting comedians, and having the top post in here be “Dont” really makes it seem like the people here prefer being sad and lonely. sorry its not a direct reply to your query, as some actionable advise your seeking, just me attempting to articulate what i enjoy about reddit that I feel like i don’t see here yet. I don’t how to get someone like shittymorph over here. I don’t know if there’s anything that lemmy offers that appeals to a person like that, that’s enough to make them start creating content over here. Maybe we just need people to stand up the sort of communities commedians would be attracted to, even if its a bit out of our wheelhouse, but idk. Authenticity is important and faking it is easily seen through.
I’d argue that this is how most communities start out. It’s start by being a niche like Linux users and slowly gains population. Population makes posts more generic to appeal to the new wider audience and then more people migrate.
I’m hypertech nerd that’s a hard social democrat so for me things are good lol.
I think the problem with Lemmy is that people assume Lemmy is reddit instead of one lemmy-instance is reddit.
So people attribute a culture to the whole of Lemmy instead of an instance.
People should focus more on one instance and grow a culture. It will automatically attract more of that type of person.
Just try to interact with people because it is fun or you have something to share that you are passionate about. As my doctor said: “Don’t force that shit.”.
And most important is that people stop talking about content like it is heroin. It is becoming pathetic.
I don't really understand why you would want to. In order for the fediverse to be strong it has to grow organically and scale up, not face an eternal september of clueless people who aren't particularly interested in it.
The corporate/political shills, scammers, sealions and such are attracted to reddit by its size. Not having all that crap here is a good thing. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.
Yea i remember how much i hated reddit as a digg user, every annoying bitch was like “i read this on reddit”. Then diggv4 shit the bed and i migrated for the content. Dont be an annoying cunt it will only drive people away. Edit: found the reddit user
The reddit posts I saw made it seem WAY more complicated then it was.
It made it seem I was going to have to make dozens of different users. That it was going to be an issue posting to different instances. That I was going to need several programs to talk to eachother…
Mean while. I signed up. Sync told me. ‘hey! You just got lemmy - I already work for that!’ and here I am. Sometime I forget this isn’t reddit.
Seriously. Whatever flyers you want to spread for reddit needs to show how EASY it is to come here.
Speaking of that. Do we lemmings have a dedicated post we can share to redditor who are ready to switch?
Cross post from Lemmy to Reddit. But we must raise the question if we really want that. Reddit became toxic over the past few years, and I think people on Lemmy right night are in general different. Do we want to turn Lemmy into Reddit?
I don’t think we do no. Reddit (users) has long been known for its “know-it-all” elitist attitude. I dunno if that is a natural consequence of the voting system but we shouldn’t try to replicate it.
You’re on an instance that uses very few blocked instances. Perhaps you should sign up on an instance that blocks tankies instead? Remember that the instances that your instance is federated with also determines your feed since their votes are counted as well.
Stop pulling the ladder up behind you. Don’t lock the door once you are in. Don’t advocate for Anti-Immigration when you are fresh off the boat yourself. 😂
Quite true, why should that change anything? I’m here now and recognize it’s a fairly nice place and it doesn’t need a user base the size of Reddit. Come with a real argument to support your narrative, mine is that too many people will turn this place to shit as well. Logical fallacy vs reality in a nutshell this conversation.
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