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About db0's recent success (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37167077

I'm sure we've all seen db0's post on fediverse about the success of linking c/piracy to r/piracy; and due to the ongoing reddit exodus, there is an opportunity:

What if we talk to the reddit mods of equivalent communities, and ask them to link to the lemmy version? It seems it could be a great success. I've even made a post for these new users: https://lemm.ee/post/54814946 and the mods, to explain in as short time as i can how to get completely set for the threadiverse.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Sorry to be a pessimist but this was the strategy during one of the bigger Reddit exoduses over a year ago. It didn’t seem super effective and I doubt it would be better now since Reddit removed a bunch of rebellious mods

[–] threelonmusketeers 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It didn’t seem super effective

Hey, it's why I'm here :)

Probably other people too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No problem :)

It seems for dbzer0 its been very, very successful. And it did have an effect last time, even if it is small.

I think we shouldn't waste such a good opportunity, even if we only get a handful of users

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Don't ask, don't get. A small success is still a success.

Just getting fed as a concept into people's heads is a win, and every user turned is a victory.

I think there will be a critical point in the future that pushes the majority of users from Reddit, much like how Digg went down back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Like a lot of of things, it's not really important to get everyone to switch immediately but to keep lemmy being mentioned. Humans are weird animals and this sort of advertising requires repetition. Just having lemmy appearing regularly in redditor feeds is always good to get people switching

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 days ago

Excellent points.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yep, a win is still a win. And who knows? we might get a couple of valuable users from it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's an important thing to point out: Simply having many users isn't bad, of course, but for small communities to grow, you mostly need a few power users to push open the doors and lay the groundwork for more passive users to follow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

Yep, no matter how many commenters, subscribers, upvoters you have you will ultimately be the only one posting for a long time, to keep the community alive (till it manages to sustain itself)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

..and for some subs, the mods just outright banned posts, comments or the users posting, for even mentioning the words 'lemmy', 'fediverse', and so on. (happened to me)

I'd suggest DMing users on reddit individually whenever you see someone asking about options for other communities and social media, directing them to lemmy, but that'll take a lot more effort. AFAIK reddit isn't (yet) going so far as to monitor direct messages between users to censor mention of the fediverse.