niche community will work?
I’m interested in your ideas and strategies.
additionally not quite related to the topic.
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to register on BlueSky, or rather, I managed to, but my account was blocked for suspicious activity a second after registration. Idk why.
The platforms will push them towards us.
But to answer your question, my uneducated guess would be to setup “default instances” so people can join lemmy and check out the place and eventually find a instance that best reflects their values.
Transferable accounts between instances as well. So tired of making new accounts everywhere I go
don’t attract individuals, attract entire groups of people. The idea of moving humans one by one when all of their friends are on centralized platforms will only attract lonely people, who won’t be able to promote the platform. The growth will eventually halt.
Move entire communities that are already connected: specific identities, followers of famous people (which should be onboard with the plan), specific subreddits and so on.
Brilliant insight. This is the way
Mildly unrelated point that I wanted to say here, ive found that I can now find the answers to a lot of my questions by putting lemmy in the search bar instead of reddit. There definetly arent as many results but they are usually higher quality than redits.
That’s great to hear!
Well I have a lot of friends that used to use reddit but left for various reasons. I’ve been trying to get them to come here with promises that’s it’s like reddit 10 years ago.
But I think they are just kind of over it. Spend their time on other things.
cat pictures
Cat memes
How will they resist?
or naked bodies
I just link people to good posts I find on here.
You’re not going to get a typical apathetic person to change anything.
Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say “hey I’ve been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]”
ii suspect that most on lemmy have been moving from one platform to another since 1990’s because of this sentence and it boggles my mind someone repeats it like it’s never happened before.
My wife checks it out about once a year because she likes the idea. Her measuring stick is when you can get a decent feed by subscribing to communities instead of needing to browse by all
Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say “hey I’ve been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]”
In the mean time, post & comment. The more content & discussion there is, the more attractive it will be to others. If you’ve got a niche hobby you’re passionate about, get a community going or try to grow an existing one if it already exists.
I comment way more on Lemmy than I was doing on Reddit towards the end, partly because the people here are generally good to chat to, but also because I want this place to keep being good so I can continue to keep using it.
Post for sure. If you’re brave enough to make posts absolutely 100% get busy. Check the user MyNameIsAtticus for inspiration. Dudes been making a post every day about whatever hes playing, basically using Lemmy as a diary that talks back.
It sounds like the daftest most pointless self-indulgent bullshit, but I love it.
Do not force people to do it. It should be based on personal interest.
I’m surprised NSFW comms haven’t done this already. Idk tbh
A lot of people are against it because they see it as the first step towards evil, but I still think we should have some sort of recommendation algorithm. New content discovery on Lemmy is way too manual for normies like me.
The sign-up process should be streamlined. It’s really intimidating to have to choose an instance when you don’t even understand what the heck that is. And then there’s the manual account validation. I’m not sure what the solution is but we might want to find one.
And we need to do something about the extremists. They have a right to exist, but the abnormally high prevalence of American-coded communist/anarcho-communist content that just casually talks about executing the rich and the like is weird and intimidating even to me, a decidedly left-wing person. Americans, who are famously doubtful of communism, probably run away from the platform seeing that. And as for non-Americans… Well the proportion of content that’s specifically about American politics is even higher than on Reddit, which is saying something.
The strong presence of communists is very normal, actually, though I don’t know what you mean by “American-coded.” Lemmy was created and is developed by communists, and communists in general are atttracted to FOSS tools and platforms.
Well there’s a focus on American events, American billionaires, and the distinctly American flavour of extreme policing
One place in the lemmyverse that’s been able to buck US-defaultism a bit is the news mega thread on Hexbear. That was done by seeking out and elevating news and voices that are explicitly not in the US (and the Global North, more broadly). But even then, you need both people who are actively seeking non-US perspectives AND people who have those perspectives and are willing to invest their time. I’m not sure how to replicate this more broadly in the lemmyverse, but it’s worth noting where it’s worked and what was done.
Depends on the instance. A lot of instances let themselves be overrun by US reddit reposters, filling every community, and they moderate none of it.
At least on lemmy.ml we try to keep US content quarantined to US-specific communities.
The US Empire, in Marxist analysis, is the international dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, supported by its vassals like Canada, Australia, western Europe, Japan, the ROK, etc. As the US Empire decays, world imperialism weakens, and the ability for socialism to rise gains.
I see lots of non-Statesian content too, mostly from the communists. Lemmy.world tends to be Statesian centric, but is far from communist.
First off, political “extremism” is a very flexible term. For some, it’s extremism to support a system that leaves people dying of hunger and treatable diseases while a tiny class becomes rich beyond belief and at the same time funding wars and bombings all over the globe for profits. For others, extremism is wanting to materially overturn the former, and not just on words or the imaginary marketplace of ideas.
You can block the political communities if that’s not your thing, but creating a nice capitalist neoliberal bubble that never challenges any world perceptions is not the goal of most instances here, unlike Reddit.
The sign up process is a small extra difficulty, but it’s also part of the reason why you’re not interacting with bot farms instead of people like you do on any big platform.
