I tried multiple times to win over H.P.-communities to join Lemmy, until now with no success. Usually they either dont reply, threaten to ban me (Reddit) or say they dont have the time.
The latter happened to me just recently. They heard about the Fediverse, think its cool, but are already overwhelmed with keeping the site up.
What do you think here? Are you having similar experiences? Are you even doing it? Whould it be a good idea to propose a minimal solution like RSS-integration rather than full AP-support?
In the past, I would comment about Lemmy whenever there were posts about reddit messing up, and would get a mostly favorable response. I also got positive responses from privacy focused communities, who tend to be more willing try alternatives since they already are willing to switch or compromise on apps for increased privacy.
Not too successful so far.
I think a strategy worth trying might be to grow the r/redditalternatives and r/lemmy subreddits, and direct users to those, rather than to Lemmy directly.
If we can get Redditors talking about Lemmy, that would help spread awareness.
I try to post regularly on /r/RedditAlternatives
A few people gave it a try
r/otomegames has it so advertisements for other communities are all relegated to a Self-Promotion Sunday thread that nobody looks at.
I did reach out to the mods to ask if they’d be willing to do anything for this, they’re not interested on moderating off of Reddit or putting this in the sidebar, so very slow organic growth it is…
I do exist on otome Discords and I talk there way more than I self-promote, but I have promoted this there and I don’t think anyone has bitten yet. ;-;
I actually don’t remember what taught me about Lemmy and Kbin’s existence. I know it was over the API exodus, but not sure if it was a news article or a Reddit thread. It definitely wasn’t someone DMing me to join, I would have taken that as spammy and annoyingly promotional and rejected it instantly. Bringing this up because if we want to grow the Fediverse it’s probably worth thinking about what got us to move, and what let us even know it was an option.
I actually don’t remember what taught me about Lemmy and Kbin’s existence.
For me it was a german podcast about social media called “Haken dran”. For a short time, they had a community on feddit.de, where the hosts also occassionally visited and sometimes they would mention “feddit” in their podcast, which got me on the hook.
Sadly, the podcast by now moved its community to discord.
Anyways, I do think metions in podcasts, YouTube videos, etc., matter. It raises awareness beyond the big companies fucking things up … though I think the most effective thing to grow the Fediverse is to code better software.
The association with hexbear has tainted Lemmy enough that it’s a hard sell. I have to convince them it’s not all an edgy echo chamber of pretend leftists
Every time I suggest people switch to Lemmy I either get no response or shadow banned 😅
If they are hosting their own forum, an alternative could be NodeBB or Discourse who both are part of the fediverse and (should) work well with Lemmy
Not a forum, but I was at a boardgame night with some old friends a few weeks ago and they were talking about Reddit, and I tried to pitch Lemmy. They were completely uninterested. They just didn’t see the issues with Reddit that ruined the experience for me, like rampant bots and overzealous moderation.
