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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.

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think messaging mods is worse than useless. It is harassment that will make them actively not want to bother with lemmy.

[–] Anon518 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a suggestion other than "do nothing"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Make Lemmy a place worth hanging out and having a discussion rather than desperately trying to recreate the shit hole that is reddit?

People weren't "organizing" to convince users of digg to migrate to reddit For The Greater Good. It was instead obvious digg was a mess and people went to the better site.

And everyone acknowledges that mastodon is much healthier than lemmy (... damn that is a low bar). And that is because there aren't swarms of people constantly trying to convince kylie jenner that she should post on mastodon instead. Instead, there is very much "This shit isn't twitter. Twitter sucked long before dipshit bought it" and it is building its own identity.

Whereas... a lot of y'all feel like the ex that sends texts a year later about how you bought a new shirt or you lost weight. And I am sure a few of you are looking to pick up some strange to show those jerks at reddit that your new boyfriend has an even bigger dick and knows how to use it before tearfully calling in the morning about how you are still in love with him and want him to take you back.

[–] Anon518 0 points 10 months ago

rather than desperately trying to recreate the shit hole that is reddit

I don't want that either. See my other comments.