Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners
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When you search for "Reddit" in the app store and it also shows an app for Lemmy, we are getting there.
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Reddit is going to pay enough for this to never happen
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[email protected]replied to Blaze (he/him) last edited by
I'm sure there are fine people on Reddit who don't know about Lemmy, but your quoted examples consist mostly of certain type of faux-"apolitical" person and that's where the solutioning is stemming from.
I don't think bringing the average default sub Redditor over would be a net positive for the platform.
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Two thoughts:
- I'm subscribed to 160 communities, most very small, but see interesting stuff due to the Scaled option - also deliberately avoid the big news communities. Evidently, it takes time to join 160 small cs, so to get started it could be handy to have an all/local except list, and remove the biggest news /memes unless people tick a box saying they like such. Or make an algorithm that prioritises stuff related to what I upvote (which is how other social sites seem to get people started - e.g. i just tried rednote and it quickly learned i like mountains and trains) - but i guess that's hard to implement as each instance would need to work out 'related to'.
- 2nd point - there are other user-interfaces - I'm using Alexandrite which has a better layout than lemmy default, but how to make this easier (instructions suggest docker, how many casual users will do that ...)?
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Echoing this, with some slight adjustments:
Promote the specific sites/communities to people, and on sites that permit it, share links back to specific posts/comments that you found interesting/amusing/etc. from said sites/communities.
Reddit got popular off the back of changes to Digg and people mentioning/sharing stuff from Reddit there. I'd imagine TikTok also grew in popularity from people sharing stuff from it on other major platforms like Instagram/YouTube/Snapchat/Twitter, much as now RedNote's growing in popularity from people mentioning it on TikTok and other platforms.
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Yeah, and while it may not solve everything, it could still help!:-)
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Hehe go for it then:-).
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Still ongoing, but basic functionality is working.
