PSA: Let’s fill Kbin/Lemmy with content to attract and KEEP new users
PSA: Let’s fill Kbin/Lemmy with content to attract and KEEP new users
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 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.
This is my first comment as a reddit refugee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just made my account today after sync died, and I don't know what else to do so here I am lol
Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
Thanks for pointing me towards this. Loving wefwef. Works wonderfully!
We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight.
What's happening tonight?
I'm promoting my apps in here 😅💀😄
And my shitpost!
Warhammer 40k, Oldhammer, Tabletop Minis, and Battletech communities are open for business.
PSA = Public Service Suggestion?
Sounds cool
Also don't join ban happy instances like beehaw.
Beehaw is great, actually. Some things should not be tolerated.
I'm tired of basically every other place on the internet tolerating shitty people because of "freedom of speech" or whatever, poisoning the discussion and making it suck to actually participate.
It's good to have a place where people actually operate on good faith, and not just to fight like everywhere else because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just look at how often reddit was criticized for being toxic. If you just allow everything, that is what will inevitably happen. You have to work to prevent that.
Wait what’s happening with Beehaw?
Goodbye Reddit drama, hello Lemmy drama
I'm a new recruit as of today. I like it here more already.
Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
Try WefWef.App, it's pretty great, quite reminiscent of Apollo: https://wefwef.app
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Really? The instance I'm using works perfectly. ...probably because it's special.
Oooooooooh! Lemmy-NitroSuperFastWow! That is a special one! It's nice to hear they've got the special sauce over there.
I'm using wefwef.app on lemmy world and it works great. It might be a problem with individual clients or instances
First comment after migrating from Apollo. Tried Kbin for a bit and had trouble navigating and finding content. Switched to Lemmy.world and wefwef and it’s real good so far!!
wow wefwef.app is nice. been using PC for a few weeks and this looks and feels great on phone.
This is a confusing buggy mess. The only ones really loving it so far are the fat ass sweaty former Reddit overlord mods. There are a lot of friendlier and easier to use alternatives out there. That, and Reddit isn't going anywhere. You sad fucks can have your little unusable space.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any examples of bugs? Perhaps someone would be able to help