Context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37167077
I’m sure we’ve all seen db0’s post on fediverse about the success of linking c/piracy to r/piracy; and due to the ongoing reddit exodus, there is an opportunity:
What if we talk to the reddit mods of equivalent communities, and ask them to link to the lemmy version? It seems it could be a great success. I’ve even made a post for these new users: https://lemm.ee/post/54814946 and the mods, to explain in as short time as i can how to get completely set for the threadiverse.
Don’t ask, don’t get. A small success is still a success.
Just getting fed as a concept into people’s heads is a win, and every user turned is a victory.
I think there will be a critical point in the future that pushes the majority of users from Reddit, much like how Digg went down back in the day.
Like a lot of of things, it’s not really important to get everyone to switch immediately but to keep lemmy being mentioned. Humans are weird animals and this sort of advertising requires repetition. Just having lemmy appearing regularly in redditor feeds is always good to get people switching
Excellent points.
Yep, a win is still a win. And who knows? we might get a couple of valuable users from it.
That’s an important thing to point out: Simply having many users isn’t bad, of course, but for small communities to grow, you mostly need a few power users to push open the doors and lay the groundwork for more passive users to follow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
Yep, no matter how many commenters, subscribers, upvoters you have you will ultimately be the only one posting for a long time, to keep the community alive (till it manages to sustain itself)