So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now.
Redditors will talk about Lemmy and moving communities here, but it is really best shown that the communities are rebuilding here. Thoughts? I’ve started with a few memes and am starting a new community here as well!
I actually think there are now enough, and we could rather do without memes and consumers of them. It would be more useful to bring the niche technical communities over.
So just recreate those you care about, prime the pump and invite the key contributors over.
Dunno. I am technical and one of the reasons that kept me on reddit so long is the amount of non-technical people there. I enjoy talking to technical people but almost all my real life friends are like that and for me reddit was a place where I could discuss niche -non technical- topics.
While I do agree that a more technical crowd would be more desirable, I feel like this is a bit short-sighted in a few ways, though if my reasoning seems off, by all means, feel free to correct me
The way I see it, Lemmy should be big enough to at least have name recognition when discussing forums, message boards, etc. Which right now, I don’t believe it does, outside of the groups that are still following the Reddit protests pretty closely.
Memes attract a crowd seeking quick, entertaining content. It’s a large crowd of people, and appealing to them means you’ll be pumping your numbers up; number of posts being made, upvotes given, etc.
In turn, people in general will view a larger user base as a more appealing destination to take their activity to. For example, if I wanted to start a niche community, like for an indie game, specific literary genre, a band, some new product, etc., would I be more interested in starting it in Lemmy or at Reddit, which has much more name recognition and active users? The latter would seem more appealing to the average person, because they believe they’d be able to reach more people. Because Reddit has more people.
TL;DR- Intentionally closing ourselves off to more people could hurt us with the technical crowd that we do want. And plus, even the technical crowd needs entertainment.
People upset about third party apps will come if they know where the apps are going.
Link people to Sync for Lemmy and Liftoff for Lemmy (already usable) on Android
and Memmy for Lemmy (already usable) for those on iOS.
Also the 15+ apps currently in development for Lemmy/kbin
Edit: Jerboa on v0.18 servers is pretty darn good now.
Yea I think sync for Lemmy will be one of the big movers for people. Being able to use a different site but have it look and feel 99% the same makes that switch way easier.
I wouldn’t do it too aggressively. Targeting cool individuals for invitation is one thing, but aggressive blanket advertising would probably cause certain headaches that we’re not yet ready for.
As the userbase grows, the rate of growth is going to increase as well, because you just can’t stop people from talking about things. This would be a delicate time to massively accelerate that in any kind of coordinated way, imo.
Definitely produce content and communities though. That really only has benefits.
I see your point, too much growth too fast would strain Lemmy devs as they work to ramp up capabilities
More than that - it would strain the nascent communities
Already we’ve started to see it with defederation - admins don’t truly grasp the level of seriousness it represents, and are using it as a mod tool. It’s one thing to use it against bots and malicious nodes, it’s another to use it like a ban hammer
Plus, if you go on different servers, the experience is like a different site. Sh.itjust.works feels like shitpost central (not a criticism), lemmy.world feels like Reddit from a decade ago, lemmynsfw.com feels like a porn site built for tens of thousands and used by dozens.
I think it’s great - half the draw of the fediverse is finding a new home, soon I’m going to start trying out some small servers and hopefully get to know some people alongside my accounts replacing the endless posts of Reddit (but with better quality IMO)
If a big wave comes all at once, it’ll change the culture overnight. Small servers might close registration to preserve what they have, bigger ones might grow into it, but it also might be enough people to give the entire fediverse the feel of Reddit refugees
Once the culture becomes more stable, we’re more likely to teach them the Lemmy way rather than rebuilding Reddit… It’ll change no matter what as it grows, but the more gradual and organic the growth the healthier the community
