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)
I don't think I'm understanding. This Lemmy business has been a mess to navigate, I am up to six accounts on Lemmy for different versions. What I am trying to figure out, is why can I sort by 'Top', select 'All' which says it included other communities, but the selection of posts shown with those settings has been different for Kbin, VLemmy, LemmyNSFW, and lemmy.world? If I do this on kbin for example, almost every top post in all is from kbin, same goes for VLemmy, etc etc. Where the heck can I go, and sort by all, to see the top posts of ALL of these Lemmy instances?
Thank you for everyone's efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.
I think it's good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.
It's the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it's amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.
I for one propose more robust ways of finding communities. Maybe if communities adopted a policy of using keywords or hashtags so it can be easier to find all the places where specific topics are being discussed...? I don't know, I'm brand spanking new and trying to find my way; the first thing on my mind is: where am I, where is everything in reference to me, and how do I find out?
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
I am not sure how confident people are in a) switching from Reddit to Lemmy and b) hearing from it in the news or elsewhere, wanting to join the „fastest growing community“ and have no idea about Reddit so far.
It took me (coming from Reddit) about 2h to overview the alternatives, understand the fediverse structure and its jargon, decide between several instances, find and subscribe to similar communities (not only local ones) and finally write my first comment and post.
Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I've subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what's allowed and what isn't in each. I'm not sure where to find the stuff I like.
I'll try my best to participate. I've always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I'll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.
Lemmy needs to come up with some kind of system to keep people from spamming posts. There's no reason scrolling by new should be half filled with 4 accounts spamming posts in the same community or even across multiple communities. Something like a set amount of time between posts or something idfk.
Edit: It also needs to let me view my profile without having to go back to the top of the feed
I'm still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.
I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are 'servers', 'communities', etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific 'groups' or 'subreddits' if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.
So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.
What I would like: Frontpage with generic 'groups' or 'communities' and my subscribed 'groups' or 'communities', all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with 'techniques' (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some 'subreddits' in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the 'groups' or 'subreddits'
In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?
I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.
New to Lemmy (I've deleted my reddit account today).
Some questions for the experienced users (I'm still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works):
Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one?
For each server I join I'll have a different user?
Well, it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. I, and most likely you, still haven't figured out the mechanics of Lemmy and the federverse. Give it time,
Just like Digg before Reddit, we will soon adept. The apps will get better and things will make more sense.
It may look and work slightly different, but with a little work, maybe this will be the communities that thrives the longest..
At least until the ads, bots, and CEOs begin infesting our home again. then I guess we just got to torch it and build a new home.
Now go unpack your favourite content. Lets make this place sing!
Thank you for your help! I feel so stupid, but I can't figure out how to go to an address that isn't just a normal link in this app (Connect). But I will keep trying and I'll figure it out! It's actually kind of fun and they say it's good for your brain.
I wish someone would move over like the top 20 posts from r/Hobbydrama and create a Lemmy community. I would, but I don't know how to contact the users anymore without my old app.
Is kbin broken for anyone else? I tried to sign up a week or so ago, and my account is registered, but I can't use my password, and I can't recover my password, either. After learning kbin tracks all your upvotes, I think I like it better here on Lemmy anyway, though... That sort of information gathering feels like an advertisers wet dream.
One simple thing people could do is posting links, to videos they find interesting, on one of the video communities, like "videos" on lemmy.world for example.
I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform, so I’ll be trying my best lol
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 ran PowerDeleteSuite on my account RIGHT now. I initially hated lemmy, but got used to the PC ui, and now the apps are really good. Tired of the bootlickers left at the other place, like....how do you defend a shitty 'company' who doesn't give a shit about you? Crazy.
It's like all the awful people are left there stewing in their own juices, good riddance. I literally can not view that place anymore without Apollo so it's as good as gone. Will still browse the odd time on RES via the PC, or a search engine -reddit for something but casual browsing?............he gone!