Moving to the fediverse

Hi guys, are you familiar with the fediverse? It’s an open-source reddit-alternative that is owned and run by no one. So it doesn’t suffer from the threat of a single hostile entity making drastic, unwanted changes, as we recently saw with reddit, resulting in the side-wide protests.

It would be great to have your subreddit join the fediverse! If you do, I would suggest not using lemmy.world, as it’s already the largest instance and it’s better to spread things out so no one has too much control.

Info:

You can even create your own instance like /r/futurology and /r/piracy did https://futurology.today, https://lemmy.dbzer0.com. If you do, you may want to seed your community with content https://futurology.today/post/166237.

Once you make a community on Lemmy you could sticky a post in your sub to let your community know, and/or create an automod sticky in each thread.

  • edricEnglish
    23•1 year ago

    Mass unsolicited messages are like JW knocking on your door to preach. No one will appreciate that. This is like the alien.top creator’s methodology. While backed by good intentions, you’re not really convincing anyone to switch. Organic movement of users is really the only full proof way to get more people on lemmy AND actually retaining them. A large number of reddit users who joined the mass exodus 6 months ago are probably back on reddit now and only a few actually stayed.

  • OtterEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    I’m working with a few subreddits and their Lemmy equivalents, and I’d strongly recommend against this approach. As people have said, it sounds spammy and it would make the mods more suspicious of the Fediverse when someone comes along to actually try and work on stuff with them

    It’s better to have this happen organically, but if you want to plan it out, what I’d recommend is work with one or two subreddit(s) you’re familiar with. Also know that you might have to take on the majority of the setup and moderation initially. When reaching out, be specific about the needs of the subreddit and why the Lemmy community might help the community, and be cool with them saying no.

    Different ways it might look:

    • copy in the subreddit rules (when it makes sense) and add mods from the sub, then let them run with it
    • copy in the rules and have it be an official relationship between the communities where each just recommends the other

    There’s no script because each time I reached out the situation was different. I can write up more on what’s worked well for me but that’s the gist of it

    • @Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      This is the way if you want any movement. Start the communities yourself and curate/nurture them. Hand them off to a mod or trusted member that wants to break away from Le Reddit.

    • @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Sounds approach. I tend to do it as well. The more organic and tailored you are, the higher the success chance is.

      • OtterEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Agreed, so you’re welcome to take initiative! More just don’t send a boilerplate message around everywhere :)

        I appreciate that you’re working on building things up. That’s how we make the fediverse better for everyone

    • @JackLSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      I was just thinking this sounds like Lemmy becoming e-Mormons

      The fact is most people are perfectly happy being herded like cattle if it means avoiding a slight learning curve and new ecosystem

      I could be wrong but is the previous statement referring to Lemmy, Mastodon, Linux or my entire career of shielding management/entrepreneur types from minor technical details?

  • @ghen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    I would move an entire group of fighting games reddits over here but there’s no automoderator or mod toolbox equivalent. Until lemmy gets that basic functionality it’s moot to try and moderate anything at a high level

    • @KuroiKaze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      As as big fighting game player I await you. At the very least maybe we need our own improved version of kappa

  • @uuhhhhmmmm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    Most of subreddit admins and mods are not interested in migrating to somewhere else. A few months after API changes Reddit is still usable and active. Even third party apps are functioning if you apply a patch with your developer token. Also mods don’t want to lose their power.

    If you really want to bring more official communities here, you should ask admins who are already interested in open-source or Fediverse. For example, I found that people behind Fossify (a Simple Mobile Tools fork) had created a subreddit. Ask them about Lemmy. It’s FOSS-friendly, there are a lot of fans here, so the chances that they’ll make and promote a Lemmy community are much higher.

  • @topinambour_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    The fediverse isnt a reddit alternative. Lemmy is. The fediverse is a network of different type of service, like lemmy, mastodon, or peertube.

  • Resol van LemmyEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    During my days of Reddit, I’ve been active on r/Morocco a lot.

    Here in Lemmy, I have only encountered one other Moroccan. That’s it. I don’t even know anyone in my country who’s ever heard of Mastodon even, despite it gaining traction everywhere else.

    And I think I prefer it this way, it kinda makes me stand out from the crowd in a way.

  • @cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I think imma start prefixing my AskLemmy questions with the “subreddit”/community of interest. Many of them are awesome but not super active here while there’s lots of people to discuss and answer so why not skip the middleman?