Fedigrow
To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- https://lemvotes.org/
Megathreads:
- How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
- Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)
Rules:
- Be respectful
- No bigotry
This is something I wrote and will post on Reddit when the discussion allows it. Change it, add to it.
If you want to keep your agency online you need to migrate to social media that allows you to keep it. Here are some options. They all require some learning and honestly they all need more OC. No, they are not perfect but they are alternatives.
Fediverse - https://jointhefediverse.net/
Lemmy - https://join-lemmy.org/
Piefed - https://piefed.social/
NOSTR - https://nostr.com/
Mastodon - https://joinmastodon.org/
Bluesky - https://bsky.social/about
Peertube - https://joinpeertube.org/
Pixelfed - https://pixelfed.org/
FOSS Apps - https://sourceforge.net/directory/
I usually just point to https://piefed.zip/ , it avoids https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
piefed.zip + summit has been a great combo for me
Whenever I see a “free” service advertised, I wonder how they’re paying for the ad if the service is free.
I know that take is simplistic and cynical, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that way, so I just want to make you aware of a problem.
ahem We're not Lemians, we're Lemmings, thank you very much.
It's much more amusing and self-aware.
We need portable identities first
I also think people should stop caring about their online identities at all.
It's not real life so if you need to leave social media it should be psychologically easy.
So many Redditors, Tiktokers, Instagramers etc. probably don't want to have to start "over" on another platform.
While being mobile with your identity is probably a good thing, I believe people should also learn to let it go.
People care about their identity on Reddit? I always used it as a sort-of anonymous forum, except with usernames, less likelihood to get told rancid things than on a truly anonymous platform with no accounts to ban, and if you were reading some original stories on Reddit you could recognize the author's name.
Instagram was something I used under my real name to keep up with real life friends, so yeah I care about my identity there, but I'm aware some people use it less as a real life social media and more as a content platform.
Turned up my nose at TikTok, which has proven to be the correct option for online approval years after I made the decision to ignore it.
You mean porting ones account from one instance to another? With all the data? to be honest, since lemmy is way more open a scraper could be developed for this purpose by anyone (using the lemmy api). Because of this lemmy accounts are already more portable than a reddit account.
That could is doing so much heavy lifting its on it's way to win Mister Universe.
Sabachtan gnosis?