Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534

It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.

Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.

!place_join_lemmy@lemmy.world

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    And based on everyone’s excitement to participate seems like their plan is working.

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      Agreed… Feels like everyone is falling for this hook, line, and sinker.

      The goal is to get people back on Reddit, doesn’t matter what you’re doing. For how many people are still on Reddit complaining, it clearly doesn’t matter that much to people.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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        99.999% of people never left reddit in the first place… this is our chance to get some of those people that either never heard about Lemmy or were discouraged by the complexity of the whole thing the first time around, but might be primed to make the leap now

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          Are we sure about that? Many people exclusively used third party apps and wouldn’t use it otherwise

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            It’s too early know right now. We do know that a very small percentage actually came to Lemmy. My assumption is that most of the people who cared enough to stop using reddit would have looked for an alternative, and other alternatives like Tildes and Squabbles are much smaller than even Lemmy.

            But I suppose its possible that a significant portion of users simply stopped using reddit without a replacement. I doubt it, but we don’t know for sure.

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              I know a lot of people just use TikTok and Instagram and don’t care to find an alternative, but I don’t know what that number scales to outside of my personal circles

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                Yes I was also thinking of this scenario, which I believe is quite common. But those people also probably didn’t spend too much time on reddit in the first place

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              I evaluated both and decided pretty quickly that lemmy was the way to go.

              I bounced off of the sign-up and initial subscription setup a few times, unfortunately it was during that business with beehaw and I still have ‘pending’ subscriptions that will never be allowed or recieved :P

              All in all, the things that made me pick lemmy were:

              • The atmosphere in discussions (the agora on sh.itjust.works was having excellent back and forth)
              • Documentation for self-hosting and openness of the code
              • Selfawareness of problems the platform faced
              • The boom in 3rd party apps

              Even I have to admit, most of my reasons were lucky, timely and niche.

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                Even I have to admit, most of my reasons were lucky, timely and niche.

                Very mature of you to recognize this. I also find myself thinking about how lucky I was to end up here. I easily could have bounced off beehaw and lemmy.ml and gone right back to reddit. I just happened to see the name sh.itjust.works with open sign-ups and the rest is history. Then there were dozens of exceptional posts and comments that drew me into the community immediately. Almost seems like fate.

                Except I don’t think it is, I think that the quality of discussion on Lemmy, which is of primary importance, is just that much better than reddit. All the bugs and lack of niche communities and everything else that people complain about here doesn’t matter to me, as long as I know that I can come here and express my thoughts and really be heard.

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      I think they made the bet that they will earn more from boosting the monthly active user numbers than they would lose from the bad image drawn by Lemmy trolls, and I’m not sure the outcome is obvious.

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        The outcome is obvious. Admins will remove anything they don’t want people to see and they’ll have accomplished their goal of pumping their engagement numbers.