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!
Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
Same here! I’m going to try to be more involved but will I add anything of quality? Prob not! 😂
I agree. Without engagement, it will lack that sense of community that reddit had.
We’ll get there - it’s just about chatting when you have something to offer; we get to be the stimuli, the response or both
Like, for me, I don’t start conversations particularly often - but I can certainty riff on topics fed add things along the way once the ball is rolling. That’s why I’ve always been more of a comments section person. Guess I’ll have to step out and try posting more!
I think I’ve made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.
I’ve been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.
I believe it’s worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.
Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!
I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).
How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?
Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren’t directly about either Lemmy or reddit.
Yeah. Sometimes it feels like it’s just people patting themselves on the back for not using Reddit, which is completely ok, but I’d also like to see other stuff. Like from subreddit I used to subscribe to.
I get it. It’s cathartic, and it’s nice to vent about it. It was similar during the digg > Reddit migration and it will naturally end on it’s own, but I do hope it doesn’t last too long.
Yeah, I think it’s partly a coping mechanism and partly just the current drama that everyone’s aware of, which makes it safe common ground to make jokes about, as well as pretty much the only thing most people can be fairly sure they have in common with others on a platform that is pretty new to them. A week or so ago Mastodon was pretty full of Titan stuff. Things will move on again.
Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
Is it an iOS app? I can’t find it in the Android Google or Samsung store.
It’s a web app instead of native app. I’m using https://wefwef.app/
They said they are adding an android skin as well on the road map. I’m assuming you can simply use it on an android phone now, although I haven’t tested so could be wrong.
https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
I’m not sure how you do it on android but in iOS you can add it to your Home Screen and it opens up similar to how a native app would.
I think there’s also an iOS app, but you can just go to https://wefwef.app as well
It’s a mobile web app, so iOS users can visit https://wefwef.app using Safari, then click the Share icon, the click ‘Add to Home Screen’.
I don’t use Android so I don’t know if there’s a similar process to turn a link to a website into an icon on the Home Screen. I just did a web search and found this website, which I hope is useful for you https://beebom.com/ways-turn-any-website-android-app/
(Also I’m new to wefwef and this is my first comment using it)
Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I’m really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!
Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!
I got started with browsing the most popular communities (if you’re on a browser, click Communities in the upper left, then pick All under List of communities) and picking the ones that seemed interesting. Then I started searching for ones that mirrored my subreddits and other interests. One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you’ll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don’t be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
There are still some subreddits that don’t have an equivalent here yet, so I check back for those every few days to see if anyone has gotten around to them (I’m definitely not up for moderating myself)
As @Nonameuser678@aussie.zone posted, you can also use https://browse.feddit.de/ to quickly search for communities and see their subscriber, post and comment count to gauge how active they are.
Welcome!
Edit: I just learned about lemmyverse.net which is an even better website to browse both instances and communities. Check it out!
Thanks for the run down, appreciate the detailed explanation! Great idea about finding mirror communities from Reddit.
One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you’ll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don’t be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
This bring back fond memories of browsing early Reddit lol
Note if you find a community somewhere and you don’t see it in your instance that means no one has subscribed to it yet. You’ll have to paste the whole url on the search bar and wait maybe 30 seconds.
Or just click a link to it if it’s mentioned in a comment on lemmy!
With the 0.18 update links like this: !cats@lemmy.ml should “just work”, even if it hasn’t been discovered by your instance yet. (You might have to refresh after the first time)
Also you can set your “home instance” on https://lemmyverse.net and browse communities there, and it will automatically link you to it on your instance, which should handle discovery as well
I have a question. I used the website, found https://lemmy.world/c/texas , but I can’t figure out how to subscribe to it in Jerboa.
Search for !texas@lemmy.world in the app or your home instance. It may take a few tries if your instance has never loaded it before, but once it loads in if you subscribe they will continuously federate afterwards.
Hello! I’m still familiarizing myself with the fediverse and Lemmy, but I look forward to contributing once I’m comfortable.
I hope formatting commands are similar to old reddit, I do love my citations :)
I found this earlier today, I just went through and Re subbed to my favorite sub reddits. https://sub.rehab/
