ProdigalFrog

I feel like having comments in public threads would provide the most visibility/advertising for lemmy on reddit while simultaneously providing more content to interact with on the lemmy side, which is the most critical aspect needed over here, IMHO.

Setting up a bridge to DM the OP to inform them that a lemmy discussion on his post exists and imploring them to join doesn’t really offer a compelling reason to join, because that just shows them that even if they keep posting on reddit exclusively, they’ll get that benefit of Lemmy discussions coming in as DMs anyway, so why switch? And anyone participating in the Reddit thread normally would not even know that a lemmy discussion is happening.

If every comment in the lemmy thread bridged to the reddit thread, along with an automated message at the bottom that said something like ‘Posted from Lemmy’ with a hyperlink to the discussion on lemmy, I think that would intrigue the lurkers and commenters as well as the OP.

I think the goal for two-way communication is to show potential converts that they can choose to come to lemmy without having to log into reddit to keep up with their favorite communities, so the value-add is that they’re not missing out on anything, and they can join lemmy if they prefer it.

Realistically (for the average redditor anyway), lemmy doesn’t offer any compelling reason to use it over reddit unless you find the concept ideologically appealing already, or prefer the ‘village’ aspect that these smaller, more focused communities bring (those are the reasons I joined, personally). So I think it makes more sense to just try to bridge them to maximize activity here, which would (I assume anyway), encourage growth.

But that’s just my 2 cents. :)

Issue 1) Why should I leave, or partially leave reddit?

Reddit is undergoing a process of Enshittification, is constantly trying to trick you with new ways to display ads as posts, sells your data, and suffers from centralized corporate control.

Issue 2) Why should I go to lemmy?

Lemmy (and other fediverse options, like Piefed) is the only long-term solution to enshittification or good owners inevitably selling out to for-profit companies. If we stay with Reddit or any other closed-source privately owned social media platform, it will simply start the cycle anew, just like Reddit was the beginning of a new cycle after Digg became enshittified.

Granted, for the average user, both of those answers probably don’t really matter, but I’m not sure we should be targetting them initially anyway, they’re happy with being abused, and would be difficult to convince to switch.

1. Isn’t it full of tankies and trannies?

The tankies are thankfully isolated to their little corners of the fediverse, since most instances defederated from them. As for the second part, uhm… If that’s a problem, I’m not sure if we’d want them here anyway.

Do I join lemmy.com or what? There are a load of websites which do I join? How do I join?

https://join-lemmy.org/ has revamped the onboarding process, and I think solves any confusion that may have existed.

Is there a app for this?

https://join-lemmy.org/apps gives a nice list of those at a glance, though they could’ve made the link to that page a little more prominent. Searching ‘lemmy’ on an appstore would also bring up some apps.

Hey man, no worries. I should mention that I massively appreciate the effort and time you’ve put toward it already.

Regarding the design issue, I would put forward that it should only have the ability to respond to comments for simplicity’s sake, since the need for DM’s would be relatively niche, I suspect. And if the goal is to have a bridge between two communities, replicating all messages to reddit and vice versa by default would, IMO, be the only mode required.

I hope you’re able to secure some solid income soon! 🤞

Is there progress on making conversations between Reddit and Lemmy 2-way? I think for LinuxHardware specifically, that feature would be somewhat essential before implementing fediverser bots, since a lot (if not most) of the content posted there are requests for advice and questions, and I can’t help but feel it would be off-putting for the lemmy community if they were responding to OP’s that can’t respond back, especially if the comments were asking for further information before making a recommendation.

I’m a moderator of r/LinuxHardware on reddit. It has 76k subscribers, and receives about 150k unique pageviews per month.

After using Lemmy for a while and loving it, I decided to officially have a presence here, and partnered with the owner of !linuxhardware@lemmy.ml (Liam from GamingOnLinux) to have it be the official lemmy community.

I then wrote a post that I pinned in the community describing how to move to lemmy (as well as including a link to your Fediverser thing :D), and added a Fediverse section in the sidebar directing people here.

Unfortunately, it never really seemed to get much traction in the community, which also happened to vote not to remain dark after the API change a few months ago.

If I had to estimate how many followed through and came to lemmy, I would hazard a guess at around 30 to 50-ish people, based on the quick subscriber growth on the lemmy community, but that may have just been from already existing lemmings subbing from my announcement post at the time.

When I have the time, I’ll try writing up a call to action referencing Reddit’s announcement that they will sell their data to AI companies.

Also, one community that may be more receptive specifically to switching due to their data being sold is r/Privacy. I made a comment about lemmy there calling for people to leave for greener pastures, and it seemed to get a good amount of upvotes. But it is a large one, so it may not be the best ‘target’ for converting.

Do Lemmy and Mastodon really compete with each other when they’re attempting to cater to different needs? They are all part of the greater Fediverse, showing the growth of the overall community.

No one is actually fighting, its just showing the average monthly users of each platform from most to least users.

Is… Is that an Ultima 9 reference?

I noticed that as well, thought maybe things were just slowing down, but it’s good to know it was the software and not a sudden drop in community involvement. Since admins became aware of the bug and began restarting their servers as an ad-hoc fix, I’ve been seeing way more engagement on my instance.

Florisboard is a good one.