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!
Actually finding an instance with a working signup seems to be a huge issue.. this whole process is..who knows what instance they want?
I had zero problems with sh.itjust.works sign-up. I got my email verification in seconds! And from what I have read, it doesn't really matter which instance you choose so long as it hasn't been defederated.
But how does one know this instance will exist in a year? This was my hangup on Lemmy, was as I understand it, you lose your account and posts will be pruned if your instance goes down.
Also I don't want to use an email.
I don't know how to respond to that. I have a kbin account and a Lemmy account because I signed up for kbin first and then was told I would probably need a Lemmy account when Sync for Lemmy comes out. I would have to imagine that you can pick a larger, more active instance and be fairly assured that that server will continue well into the reasonable future.
As for email, you could make an alt/burner account for this purpose. I don't know what else to offer.
I believe Reddit has/had the same drawbacks
Well, everyone just expected them to stay up, and no, emails never were required, you just hit next at the asking screen
Same just signed up! Shit truly just works.
Indeed it does after migrating here for about a month it’s been great
You could say... shit just works
Yeah. That's one of the problems with ActivityPub services. You need to know which instance to join, but there's no way to know which one will fit you best.
I made multiple accounts on the different instances. Right now Lemmy.world is down, but this one isn't. Connect for Lemmy (android) has an easy way to switch accounts and instances.