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It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by ToadCultist@mander.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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It's no secret that Lemmy is shaping up to be a viable alternative to Reddit. The issue it faces however is that it's still relatively niche and not many people know about it. I propose that we change this. By contacting the mods of large subreddits and asking them to make and promote relevant Lemmy communities we could substantially increase the amount of people who discover the fediverse. What's more, I don't think this is would be a hard sell considering many mods are already pissed off with Reddit due to their API changes. I believe that this is the time to act, so this is a call to arms, to help grow the fediverse into the future of social media!

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[-] noodle@feddit.uk 71 points 1 year ago

Not this again...

Lemmy isn't everyones' cup of tea. Reddit, despite the API shenanigans, still does what people want.

People are not moving here from Reddit if they haven't already. They'd sooner go to Discord. Less cognitive load, and their subs already have servers set up. Lemmy has a 5 communities different servers for each sub and most will be inactive, so it's already a losing battle.

Make Lemmy it's own thing, rather than aspiring to be the 2nd head of the Hydra. Organic growth is good, sustainable. Boom and bust wholesale migrations look like failed hostile takeovers.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

People are not moving here from Reddit if they haven't already.

I think you're underestimating Reddit's ability to continue degrading the Reddit experience with their ham-fisted attempts to maximize revenue.

[-] noodle@feddit.uk 24 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree with that. Reddit will keep burning bridges with it's oldest users. old.reddit will be the next on the chopping block and that will be the death knell for desktop Reddit for a sizable number of people.

But I think you're underestimating the average modern Redditor's reluctance to jump ship. 3rd party apps were not even something they knew existed. Most never used reddit before the redesign. They already used the app. You cant miss what you never had.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree on all points. But I‘d say both things can be true at the same time.

Maximize attention brought to lemmy as an alternative so that the last salvageable soul on reddit gets the message while not shooting for copying reddit (like actual copying of posts for example and recreating every sub etc).

While I am very much in agreement with your arguments, I feel like your rhetoric is a little black and white albeit entertaining. Yes, there will be people going to discord because mental load, yes there will be people unwilling but some might still not have gotten the message.

So I say keep telling them but don’t try to „sell it“ if that makes sense.

Edit: fixed half finished sentence

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Maximize attention brought to lemmy as an alternative so that the last salvageable soul on reddit gets the message

Have a look at this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1507unf/post_why_dont_reopen_here_completely/

People were being told to move to Lemmy, but they fiercely refused, sometimes being utterly agressive.

And this is a Unixporn community, which is supposed to be aware of FOSS.

Reddit users don't want to be solved.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I have made similar experience with the community I moderate (linux specific).

There is an easy explanation for this:

A lot of people in IT are autistic (as am I) and we don’t react well to change (often). That plus reddit can be a cesspool at times explains why they react this way. But although I hate change, I got the message because people didn’t give up on me. I was subjected to arguments without being lectured all the time so I could explore in my own pace. So I won‘t give up on others. Easy as that. :)

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You make a good point, that could be part of the issue.

Happy to have you here in any case!

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

That’s very nice of you to say. Thank you. I‘m very glad to have found this place. And I like it a lot more than reddit for multiple reasons. :) have a good one.