Serious question, as I‘ve barely seen any mention of Lemmy on Reddit. None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware. Would it be against the TOS to start a coordinated promotion?

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    In my experience lemmy was the most suggested alternative on reddit and then tildes, the only time i ever heard abou kbin was the day before the blackout with the subreddit ban and then during it.

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      I’d never heard of kbin at all until I actually signed up to a Lemmy instance.

      I’d heard Lemmy mentioned somewhere before (I’ve searched for reddit alternatives a few times in the past as I got increasingly annoyed by their pushiness towards the app), but only really took notice of it a few days before the blackout when I saw it mentioned many times on reddit.

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        Yeah, I only got an actual link to kbin during the blackout here on lemmy, it was surprising to hear they got so many people so fast. It’s nice they did, i just don’t remember seeing anything about them on the alternatives subreddit or anywhere else.

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          Kbin seemed to be pushed more on Mastodon than Lemmy was, during and in the run up to the blackout. Lots of people giving new things a go this week, even from places other than Reddit!

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        Kbin I think is really new, I’ve only heard it mentioned fairly recently, and I been exclusively using the fediverse for about a year now

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          I like the kbin UI and ergonomics a little more than Lemmy.world, but the underpinning tech isn’t going to scale efficiently, being based on PHP. I have a sign on over there too. It’s comfy, but intermittently unusable or unresponsive. So there are some teething pains here, but Kbin is also part of the fediverse, and will hopefully start opening up more federations soon. That should hopefully reduce some load and more users.

          The more the Fediverse at large is able to draw off the Rexxit™, the more we all win.

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      Funny, I mentioned joining Lemmy on reddit and had someone go “join tildes, it’ll be easier” and then I went to tildes and in the first comment chain about rexxit there was a guy like “now I know it’s much harder to join tildes than Lemmy” and I didn’t know what was going to be easier or whatever but I liked the federation idea so I came here lol

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      I did hear of Lemmy first, with immediate criticism about supporting the CCP and so on. The second alternative mentioned on Reddit was kbin which is where I went first.

      Unfortunately kbin runs on PHP and you can really feel the site lagging at times, no clue why someone would port a stable Rust code base to this mess. lemmy.ml is lighting fast in comparison and has working federation.

      I did also try sh.itjust.works as an alternative Lemmy instance (which would be nice as it blocks lemmygrad.ml), but it’s in Canada and I’m in Europe, so the latency is noticeable.

      So now I’m here, oh well.

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      Me too! And then I promoted it myself on some of the subs I’m a part of.

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      Same thing for me. But I mostly lurk on reddit. I’d like to make an effort to post here though!

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    You can promote it all you want on reddit, just always be polite and not obnoxious in any way or form. Not saying that you personally would be, but speaking in general terms too much energy into convincing people to come here might have a negative effect on other people’s motivation.

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      This! if I see people ask for alternatives I will recommend them, but I’m currently not going out of my way to force it down anyone’s throat.

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    I found it on Reddit and seen it around, it‘s spreading. Might write some comments myself too, as long as I still have Apollo to do so; so far I am liking it here.

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    Lemmy development really needs another couple weeks or a month. There are over 100 instances peering and it’s really pushing the database systems hard with the 100,000 users already. Database tuning and query optimization in the code is the order of the day. I also think some of the new front-end apps for web and smartphones would help.

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    I promoted the shit out of it right before the blackout. Only got banned from one subreddit. Who cares, not like I’m going back.

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    Redditors in general just aren’t that into lemmy. Most redditors come here expecting to find a 1 for 1 replacement pre-warmed with millions of users and brimming with reddit culture.

    Not having an algorithm to tell people what they want to see is a bigger impediment to attracting users than most people realise.

    Additionally, I think mods are reluctant to direct users to any other community as they will give up lordship of their own fiefdom. Sorry, I acknowledge that I have probably an unfairly dim view of mods. I’m sure some are amazing, but certainly many are self-obsessed power trippers. They act in their own interests to preserve control rather than acting in the interest of the community.

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      I acknowledge that I have probably an unfairly dim view of mods. I’m sure some are amazing, but certainly many are self-obsessed power trippers. They act in their own interests to preserve control rather than acting in the interest of the community.

      You’re not alone. I absolutely detest Reddit mods for this. I only hope Lemmy doesn’t turn out that way for what I consider to be egregious acts of injustice when I participate in good faith.

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    We should make a community on Lemmy about promoting Lemmy on reddit. We could do something like an AMA with people talking about Lemmy. I don’t see how they could stop us. If they ban us it’s just more threads about how we got banned for talking.

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        Looks like that subreddit is being run by people who are obsessed with kbin and don’t actually support lemmy. But there are plenty of upvoted comments in support of lemmy. We should try to take that over to provide a better tutorial for redditors who are thinking about moving.

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          I think that’s cause r/kbinmigration got banned and they got moved to r/lemmymigration, the support is more so supporting both while sympathizing how kbin’s subreddit got banned which i think could be why there isn’t that many posts of supporting lemmy

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    Pirate family on reddit exposed me to the wonders of lemmy, so at the very least piracy mods are based. Indefinite black outs too instead of that weak 2 day protest.

  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz
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    Nothing so far.

    The automod post I have set up at r/edc links to the sopuli.xyz/c/edc version.

    At r/knives, we have both the lemmy and squabbles versions linked.

    Neither myself, or the mods I comoderate with at the knives sub have faced any issues. This could change, but as long as you aren’t spamming the hell out of it, they aren’t coming after mods, or users doing it here and there.

    There was the new sub, r/lemmymigration, that got pulled down then reinstated after backlash though, and the person running that got banned for a bit. There’s also been reports of anti-protest mods requesting, and getting, senior mods removed in their favor. All of which is bullshit that merits huffman getting kicked in the nads, but it was expected.

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    Don’t think it’s against the rules but people will be annoyed if you just throw Lemmy into every conversation. Just spread the word where it’s motivated.

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      I believe a coordinated and directed action could work well. Obviously random spam would just annoy people but the vast majority still hasn‘t heard of Lemmy yet and if we manage to get to them at least once, would be ideal. We could target the largest subs that are open currently and either put up a comment on a hot post and use our manpower to upvote the comment to the top, or make new posts which are more likely to be removed.