I've been thinking of this for a long time, but have there been any serious attempts on getting the subreddits of your ethnic group / country on switching to lemmy?

Feels pretty lonely on lemmy, since there are only 6 (including me, and afaik) arabs/1 other person from my country. And i'm guessing it can feel barren for some in the same way.

Would it be a good idea to go on subreddits like r/denmark, r/estonia, r/arabs, r/kurdistan (for kurds), etc and promote lemmy? What do you think would be the response? What communities would we do? Is it a good idea?

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago

(Going to talk about arabs here, for example.) Since most arabs on reddit complain about how all pro-palestine content is heavily censored and how it’s consistently enshittifying. But i mean this might be diminishing returns, but at the same time i find it insane that there are only 6 (afaik) arabs meanwhile there are whole instances for french/german/chilean/italian/etc

Maybe all what's needed is for someone to start?

I [think] i get along okay with everyone else,

I certainly don't, but I'm old(ish) and grumpy :p

i do miss having other arabs to talk to on lemmy. This isn’t too big of a problem, but would be nice to solve :-)

I would not blame you for trying ;)