Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?

I had my wife join, and she likes it, but laments the slow pace of new material in the communities.

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    52·
    1 year ago

    Make valuable original content here that’s not found elsewhere, post and comment thoughtfully as much as possible(No. Pun. Chains). Don’t try to turn this place into reddit, be better than reddit.

    People who are on reddit that wanted to come here right now has already done so, so it’s important to drew in people who has never used reddit before here instead of always waiting for reddit to do something stupid.

    Also less celeb gossip please, need a place where I can get away from that on the Internet.

    • jackpot@lemmy.ml
      22·
      1 year ago

      the last point should be ignored, the whole point of lemmy is to have as many communties as possible and subscribe to the ones you like. you can defederate ones you dont like

      • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
        12·
        1 year ago

        I respectfully disagree. The goal should always be to foster high quality discussion over raw quantity of comment and artificial engagement and the devs have said as much in their documentation of Lemmy’s design.

        Otherwise, this place would be no different from 9gag or imgur comment sections, much less reddit.

    • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      Also less celeb gossip please, need a place where I can get away from that on the Internet.

      You get celeb gossip? I believe I’m somehow connected to the sewage hose that’s Elon Musk posts. I’d love for some more varied content instead of “[rich idiot] said [something incredibly stupid]”