cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/339130
Hi, and welcome to Lemmy April Fools, a community dedicated to discussing, planning and running Community Events in the Fediverse.
What is Lemmy April Fools:
I guess you've heard of Reddit's r/Place, or The Button? Do you remember The Cube? Have you been part of an ARG before?
If the answer is yes, you know what this community is about. The goal is to discuss and ultimately plan community events through the Fediverse. Be it social experiments, contests or funny games. As long as we're entertaining users and our events are well planned, we're achieving something.
So far, this is only a manifest, and I don't want to outline too much since this is not meant to be a personnal project. But if you too love those kind of events, and would love for the Fediverse to offer some similar experiences, you're welcome here!
Please feel free to share your ideas, or anything you think would be valuable. Even if you're just interested as a player, make your sentiment heard!
In the upcoming days, I'll organize the page, its rules, and write a more official stciky that'll replace this one. In the meantime, thanks for your time reading this, and don't hesitate to post too to voice your opinion. I can't wait to discuss with you all.
I'm sure as a community, we can create some great experiences for everyone to enjoy.
Some background about me:
I feel as the de facto admin of this community, it is my duty to tell you who I am, and why I wanted to create Lemmy April Fools.
As of today, I'm a 28 years old Motion Designer, born in France, and working in a marketing agency in Luxembourg. I'm mostly passionate about music, cinema, plants, video games and cars.. but also and more importantly here, about entertaining and bringing joy to people.
When growing up, I spent a lot of time on the internet, browsing and participating in now defunct forums of the old, pre-reddit days. As I played a lot of Habbo Hotel (I know, I know..) and was always a creatively driven person, I ended-up joining a french forum dedicated to pixel art in Habbo style. I stayed there a couple of years, and ended-up as the lead 'game designer'. My job was effectively to run events and contests through the forum and inside Habbo, which I loved to do and think I did a pretty decent job of.
Many many years later, I'm now grown and bored with my life, and I guess I want to resparkle that love for creating and running events, to see people excited and having fun. I'm not that qualified, but I'm motivated. And I hope that by sharing this motivation here, we'll be able to gather as like-minded people, and that as a group, we can create something entertaining that will bring joy to others.
As a fairly 'new' user of Reddit, I think you're pretty spot on. I've been using Reddit for around 5 years or so now (and their mobile app, I know, burn me right now) and as you said, for users like me, it's not that obvious how much Reddit has changed for the worst. Sure, a few things were changed for the worst, but compared to other social medias, Reddit still seemed like the better option to me.
The think is, this protest has shed light on a lot of issues I ignored, and the way Reddit Corp. has handled it just straight up made me sick and wanting to dissosiate myself from Reddit as a whole. But I've a strong political background, strong beliefs and I am french so.. I'm clearly not the 'common user'. Those, I get why they see the protest as an inconveniance at best, and just want to keep using the website conveniantly as they usually do. They don't know about 3rd Party Apps, they don't care about useful bots, they don't understand forums and old internet culture. They just want their daily dose of content.
EDIT: Also my very first comment on Lemmy, as I'm trying to fly away from Reddit.