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:

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.

  • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    I get that you’ve got good intentions, but this reads like an email I would find my spam folder and I can’t imagine it would inspire any reddit mods to move over to Lemmy. The mods who were so dissatisfied with Reddit that they would be willing to migrate with the information in this script have already done so.

    There are likely be some who might be willing to migrate if they get personal support from an instance admin or some other tangible offer of assistance, but nobody is going to jump ship just because “Reddit Bad” anymore.

      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        you need to personalise it for each person and appeal to their unique interests. They are people, not bots.

      • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
        0·
        8 months ago

        There are a couple of principles to ensure an activity drive like this is successful:

        • You need a significant number of contributors acting under agreed upon guidelines. The contributors will give you reach and the guidelines prevent singular actors from ruining momentum by taking counter productive actions with good intentions.
        • You need lead-up time to gather contributors and establish guidelines. In this case you would probably want some Reddit mods sympathetic to your cause so that it doesn’t sound like the initiative is from a purely external group.
        • You need to leverage bandwagon effects. In this case those Reddit mods are critical to giving the impression that there is already momentum in this direction.
        • You need a well formatted landing page to establish initial impressions. A lot of folks will clock on exactly one link before giving up on an effort. You need to make that link count.

        I’m working on compiling guides and establishing a community to organize initiatives like this over at !digitalcommunitybuilding@slrpnk.net. The project is in very early stages but the hope is to ensure your digital activism is actually effective.

        All that said I would strongly recommend against this approach unless you can make a BIG push and that takes time to organize and a lot of one-on-one conversation.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Mass unsolicited messages are like JW knocking on your door to preach. No one will appreciate that. This is like the alien.top creator’s methodology. While backed by good intentions, you’re not really convincing anyone to switch. Organic movement of users is really the only full proof way to get more people on lemmy AND actually retaining them. 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.

  • ghen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    I would move an entire group of fighting games reddits over here but there’s no automoderator or mod toolbox equivalent. Until lemmy gets that basic functionality it’s moot to try and moderate anything at a high level

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      01·
      8 months ago

      Honestly? Please try it. First I think you will not have as many problems because the platform is much smaller than Reddit so it won’t be as targeted as some popular Reddit subs are. Second, I think I can help developing the tools you need but it gets a lot easier to do so when working with an actual use case in mind.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    During my days of Reddit, I’ve been active on r/Morocco a lot.

    Here in Lemmy, I have only encountered one other Moroccan. That’s it. I don’t even know anyone in my country who’s ever heard of Mastodon even, despite it gaining traction everywhere else.

    And I think I prefer it this way, it kinda makes me stand out from the crowd in a way.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’m working with a few subreddits and their Lemmy equivalents, and I’d strongly recommend against this approach. As people have said, it sounds spammy and it would make the mods more suspicious of the Fediverse when someone comes along to actually try and work on stuff with them

    It’s better to have this happen organically, but if you want to plan it out, what I’d recommend is work with one or two subreddit(s) you’re familiar with. Also know that you might have to take on the majority of the setup and moderation initially. When reaching out, be specific about the needs of the subreddit and why the Lemmy community might help the community, and be cool with them saying no.

    Different ways it might look:

    • copy in the subreddit rules (when it makes sense) and add mods from the sub, then let them run with it
    • copy in the rules and have it be an official relationship between the communities where each just recommends the other

    There’s no script because each time I reached out the situation was different. I can write up more on what’s worked well for me but that’s the gist of it