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Help encourage more reddit subs to move to Lemmy! Message the moderators of the subs you'd like to see on Lemmy. Here's an example script. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Anon518@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Moving to the fediverse

Hi guys, are you familiar with the fediverse? It's an open-source reddit-alternative that is owned and run by no one. So it doesn't suffer from the threat of a single hostile entity making drastic, unwanted changes, as we recently saw with reddit, resulting in the side-wide protests.

It would be great to have your subreddit join the fediverse! If you do, I would suggest not using lemmy.world, as it's already the largest instance and it's better to spread things out so no one has too much control.

Info:

https://fedi.tips/
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-the-fediverse-and-can-it-decentralize-the-web/
Graphic: How federation works https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14ier24/for_anyone_wondering_how_lemmy_works_and_is/
https://lemmyverse.net/communities - explorer
Awesome Lemmy Instances has a list where you can see how many instances block/are blocked by each other https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances. This can help you pick an instance to create your community on.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances - Click on an instance, and look at the right sidebar. It will list local rules of the instance. You can also browse the "local" feed to see what kind of communities live on that specific server.

You can even create your own instance like /r/futurology and /r/piracy did https://futurology.today, https://lemmy.dbzer0.com. If you do, you may want to seed your community with content https://futurology.today/post/166237.

Once you make a community on Lemmy you could sticky a post in your sub to let your community know, and/or create an automod sticky in each thread.

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[-] rglullis@communick.news 12 points 1 year ago

This is like the alien.top creator’s methodology.

Hey there ;)

I am not sure if you are singling me out becuase of alien.top or not, because alien.top (by which I guess you mean the whole fediverser project) is less about "asking" them to move and more about getting those who are already aware of th fediverse and making it easier to migrate?

However, if you are talking about me personally, I have indeed sent messages to people (not in mass, personalized) and I can no doubt say it is effective as a way to bring awareness.

A large number of reddit users who joined the mass exodus 6 months ago are probably back on reddit now and only a few actually stayed.

Yeah, for a lack of content in the niche communities. How would that be the fault of the people who are trying to promote the Fediverse?

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[-] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 year ago

do you have any data on the % of people who chose to take ownership of the accounts that were created for them?

Not really. To do that the system would have to message everyone who posted or commented in any of the threads, and I didn't get to that stage.

My original plan was:

Start mirroring the content to bootstrap the communities
Get people on Lemmy interacting with the content.
Use the interactions from people already on Lemmy as a signal to people on Reddit that they have an audience outside of Reddit. (The original idea was to make Lemmy responses creating DMs to the user to let them know about the Lemmy link). Get the people on Lemmy co-invested in bringing these "higher-value Redditors" to Lemmy.
~~Profit~~. Start seeing a bigger mass of people joining Lemmy via the "fediversed" instances.

This plan stopped at step #2 because I did not expect to have so many people here browsing by "all" and then complaining about the flood of content from the mirrors. So the absolute majority of Reddit users never actually were made aware of the mirrored content. I still think it's illogical, but I gave up on convincing hordes of people by arguing with "logic".

I was just using that as an example of how even users who willingly tried lemmy during the exodus are hard to retain.

Agree, but it's also a problem of pure lack of content. Now that I disabled the mirrors from alien.top, I honestly miss the niche communities that I participated and it is taking quite a bit of willpower to avoid saying "screw it" and re-joining the subs I participated there.

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