We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.

Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.

Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!

Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.

Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.

For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.

Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.

Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!

  • PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I’m really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!

    Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!

    • fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I got started with browsing the most popular communities (if you’re on a browser, click Communities in the upper left, then pick All under List of communities) and picking the ones that seemed interesting. Then I started searching for ones that mirrored my subreddits and other interests. One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you’ll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don’t be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.

      There are still some subreddits that don’t have an equivalent here yet, so I check back for those every few days to see if anyone has gotten around to them (I’m definitely not up for moderating myself)

      As @[email protected] posted, you can also use https://browse.feddit.de/ to quickly search for communities and see their subscriber, post and comment count to gauge how active they are.

      Welcome!

      Edit: I just learned about lemmyverse.net which is an even better website to browse both instances and communities. Check it out!

      • PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the run down, appreciate the detailed explanation! Great idea about finding mirror communities from Reddit.

        One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you’ll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don’t be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.

        This bring back fond memories of browsing early Reddit lol

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Note if you find a community somewhere and you don’t see it in your instance that means no one has subscribed to it yet. You’ll have to paste the whole url on the search bar and wait maybe 30 seconds.

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Or just click a link to it if it’s mentioned in a comment on lemmy!

          With the 0.18 update links like this: [email protected] should “just work”, even if it hasn’t been discovered by your instance yet. (You might have to refresh after the first time)

          Also you can set your “home instance” on https://lemmyverse.net and browse communities there, and it will automatically link you to it on your instance, which should handle discovery as well

        • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.netEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Search for [email protected] in the app or your home instance. It may take a few tries if your instance has never loaded it before, but once it loads in if you subscribe they will continuously federate afterwards.

      • PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        Hello! I’m still familiarizing myself with the fediverse and Lemmy, but I look forward to contributing once I’m comfortable.

        I hope formatting commands are similar to old reddit, I do love my citations :)

        • LumunEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Oh hey I recognize you from way back during the Mueller probe - if you’re that same person. Always appreciated your informative comments. I’ll probably see how around the politics communities here then!