Please, help us to better understand how we can effectively funnel reddit users into Lemmy across all demographics, leveraging the average Lemmings advantages like expertise in automation, ai and bots?
What tactics/strategies do you propose? Can we automate the process? Can we somehow add ai to make it more fashionable?
Create content and participate to make Lemmy more attractive.
Best I can do is talk about Linux.
Which distro?
Installing tumbleweed rn
Great distro by the way.
I wish 😭
It refuses to install… I got a dell vostro 3468 running on legacy BIOS. I’m coming from windows and there’s an NTFS partition full of data I’m trying to preserve…
The guided partitioning errors out(usually runs out of space, and no packages can continue installing so they throw errors), and using the expert partitioning throws a couple of grub errors at the end when it’s installing grub
It was really good when I last tried it on another device
You can start out with something light, and then install packages as you go.
I generally do a barebones install and then install individual packages. By default a lot of packages are installed - most of them you don’t need.
And also checkout
. It is a lighter version of Opensuse and has the calmares installer. (Tumbleweed is the Gecko rolling version)
The MBR layout was the issue
When I wiped the drive, everything fixed itself!
Loving tumbleweed so far
All my homies use Hannah Montana Linux
Real OGs peer beyond the *nix veil and graduate to TempleOS
Baby’s first OS. The actual OGs graduate back to SLS.
The archetypical answer should be obvious
by the way
NixOS, BTW
That’s that Windows program the nerds use, yeah? Do you like it?
What’s a program? Is that a kind of app?
What’s a computer?
The thing you use to access the facebooks.
In German.
Then do that. There are many Linux communities on Lemmy, participate in them and try to make them a better place by contributing useful comments and posts.
I never have anything interesting to say
I think you just disproved your own point my friend, that was fascinating.
In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.
Seriously, I’m not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a *hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That’s compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.
My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that’s a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it’s probably going to dry up.
Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were ‘all filled up’ already.
Users don’t care if Lemmy or the Fediverse is more “free” or which technical features are superior to what Reddit offers.
Most users want a place to find content and basically doomscroll. You want users that will submit new content, not just lurkers. So in order to attract people here, the best way to do so is to submit new content.
Users that don’t care about freedom will never care about Lemmy. It’s the only plus it has. It’s why it exists.
Don’t worry about user numbers. Worry about developing niche communities here. With different personalities. That’s the magic to make a garden grow.
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We owe it all to the poet Morn. What a character.
By not allowing bots to crosspost from Reddit. Unique content is thexanswer.
I like that there is one instance dedicated to that. Individuals can subscribe if they like, but overall generally a good idea to avoid in other instances
I got the opposite conclusion from how Facebook managed to take marketshare from MySpace. They allowed bots to take content from the other service and it made it easier to switch
Please don’t actually
This was my thought too. Organic growth is better. I like the vibe on Lemmy far more than Reddit which has turned into a Instagram clone.
Exactly right.
Just stop going to Reddit and start contributing valuable content on Lemmy. If Lemmy is a good network, people will come here on their own.
Using AI bots to spam outsiders with Lemmy info is very likely to have the opposite effect.
Yea i remember how much i hated reddit as a digg user, every annoying bitch was like “i read this on reddit”. Then diggv4 shit the bed and i migrated for the content. Dont be an annoying cunt it will only drive people away. Edit: found the reddit user
The problem with Lemmy is that the demographic is so skewed. Its mostly hyper-tech nerds mixed with political activists. I like tech and politics but its a bit of a toxic brew and I haven’t found myself having that much fun over here. On reddit, there’s comedy and people not being angry because someone isn’t using linux. Lemmy often feels like a glorified arstechnica link aggregator. Its just kind of a sad place compared to reddit. The other day u/shittymorph made some posts that made me laugh super hard. I haven’t laughed at anything over here, because well most of you aren’t funny, haha me neither so don’t feel attacked. But lemmy not attracting comedians, and having the top post in here be “Dont” really makes it seem like the people here prefer being sad and lonely. sorry its not a direct reply to your query, as some actionable advise your seeking, just me attempting to articulate what i enjoy about reddit that I feel like i don’t see here yet. I don’t how to get someone like shittymorph over here. I don’t know if there’s anything that lemmy offers that appeals to a person like that, that’s enough to make them start creating content over here. Maybe we just need people to stand up the sort of communities commedians would be attracted to, even if its a bit out of our wheelhouse, but idk. Authenticity is important and faking it is easily seen through.
I made a political post here a couple of days ago.
RIP in box.
Turns out lemmy users are just as toxic as reddit is.
I’d argue that this is how most communities start out. It’s start by being a niche like Linux users and slowly gains population. Population makes posts more generic to appeal to the new wider audience and then more people migrate.
I’m hypertech nerd that’s a hard social democrat so for me things are good lol.
I think the problem with Lemmy is that people assume Lemmy is reddit instead of one lemmy-instance is reddit.
So people attribute a culture to the whole of Lemmy instead of an instance.
People should focus more on one instance and grow a culture. It will automatically attract more of that type of person.
Just try to interact with people because it is fun or you have something to share that you are passionate about. As my doctor said: “Don’t force that shit.”.
And most important is that people stop talking about content like it is heroin. It is becoming pathetic.
This is it for me. It seems like the whole site is an example of “the left can’t meme” with content populated by activists and sysadmins
Thus even though I also dislike Reddit I haven’t really been coming here either
Looks like you had something interesting to say, but man that lack of paragraphs… I’m not submitting myself to that.
Maybe try posting some funny memes then?
Works for Stamets and Picard.
Post more from humans, no ai content
As an AI language model, I concur with this assessment.
As an agreement bot, I agree with this message.
The reddit posts I saw made it seem WAY more complicated then it was.
It made it seem I was going to have to make dozens of different users. That it was going to be an issue posting to different instances. That I was going to need several programs to talk to eachother…
Mean while. I signed up. Sync told me. ‘hey! You just got lemmy - I already work for that!’ and here I am. Sometime I forget this isn’t reddit.
Seriously. Whatever flyers you want to spread for reddit needs to show how EASY it is to come here.
Speaking of that. Do we lemmings have a dedicated post we can share to redditor who are ready to switch?
"Join Lemmy now!
Lemmy is like reddit but better:
- easier to use
- no ads
- more fun
click here to join https://Lemmy.World/Login "
For starters, the signup shouldn’t happen on one central server
Would you be willing to create such a post/Share link?
Please, help us to better understand how we can effectively funnel reddit users into Lemmy across all demographics,
Who is “us”, who is “we”?
And who the fuck thinks anyone should be funnelling (no less) the toxic cesspit that is reddit over here?
This post sounds like some bullshit written by the marketing department of a clueless corporation trying to find ways to exploit the latest “thing”.
Please get some redditors here, the narwhal isn’t bacon enough
Well, it isn’t midnight yet so no baconnings will be happening yet.
how can we funnel reddit users to lemmy?
Spez is already taking care of that:
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
Not required, reddit had since activated self destruction mode and still on going
At this point, anyone who was part of the 3rd party app protests who stayed and didn’t make the switch clearly didn’t want to jump here, so they’ll probably be on r€dd!t for a long time.
What if they didn’t know Lemmy existed?
I’d like to think the people involved heard about Lemmy because we essentially kept saying, “Hey, we’re jumping ship!”, but I can’t remember if we did or not. I’m pretty sure there was some migrate to Lemmy sub that was also advertised in the saving 3rd party apps sub, but I, again, can’t remember whether that actually happened.
I’d definitely like to think anyone in the protest 100% knew about Lemmy unless they actually weren’t paying any attention whatsoever.
Yeah, I found out about Lemmy then and joined right away. Lemmy was definitely talked about a lot then.
Hmm, I think many users just weren’t aware. No everyone follows the main subreddits, or checks r/all. Not all subs closed. I guess the majority of users saw some stuff pass by but probably didn’t read into it too much. You know, most people spent the majority of their awake time working to “make a living”.
You don’t. There just isnt enough content. I stopped using reddit for months but now use it again when I am using my PC. Reddit for PC with RES and lemmy for phone is a good balance I found out. At least until they kill RES
res
Corrected lol. Rip RiF
F for RiF here too o7
Mod tools. Steal the moderators and the communities will follow
