We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.

Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.

Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!

Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.

Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.

For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.

Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.

Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!

  • Morose mammal@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)

  • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I think I’ve made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.

    I’ve been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.

    I believe it’s worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight.

    What’s happening tonight?

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).

    How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?

    Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren’t directly about either Lemmy or reddit.

    • skates@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. Sometimes it feels like it’s just people patting themselves on the back for not using Reddit, which is completely ok, but I’d also like to see other stuff. Like from subreddit I used to subscribe to.

  • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Warhammer 40k, Oldhammer, Tabletop Minis, and Battletech communities are open for business.

  • Rolder@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Beehaw is great, actually. Some things should not be tolerated.

      I’m tired of basically every other place on the internet tolerating shitty people because of “freedom of speech” or whatever, poisoning the discussion and making it suck to actually participate.

      It’s good to have a place where people actually operate on good faith, and not just to fight like everywhere else because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just look at how often reddit was criticized for being toxic. If you just allow everything, that is what will inevitably happen. You have to work to prevent that.

    • crowlemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you’re a nazi. You don’t like it? Make your own instance.

      Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don’t depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.

      • Kush@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Cross-instance control of your identity would be nice but it’s easy enough to just make multiple accounts and manage them easily in your browser and every app under the sun. We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit.

        • crowlemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          No it’s not. And for every account you don’t have a shared history. You don’t build a community.

          Also, which are those apps you talk about? Because Jerboa doesn’t seem to be great for that. Switching between accounts is needed and quite annoying.

          We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit

          No. You’re way more beholden. The adminmod rules it all. What you see, who they federate, etc and it’s all defended by rabid users because “if you don’t like it leave and build your own instance*”. It’s not about community but instance owner absolute power.

          Doesn’t quite work unless you’re absolutely in line with whichever narrative is happening. The echo chambers are bigger and the consequential toxicity upon dissent, much bigger.

      • TheFlame@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oooooooooh! Lemmy-NitroSuperFastWow! That is a special one! It’s nice to hear they’ve got the special sauce over there.

    • Default@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m using wefwef.app on lemmy world and it works great. It might be a problem with individual clients or instances

      • alouderback@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        First comment after migrating from Apollo. Tried Kbin for a bit and had trouble navigating and finding content. Switched to Lemmy.world and wefwef and it’s real good so far!!

  • Treemaster099@pawb.socialEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Okay, so I’ve been here for a few days and I’m getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I’ve already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I’d consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.

    Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I’ve already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff