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!
Honestly there is almost no reason to not just use your web browser instead of an app.
I’m using mobile web but I’m having this issue (maybe intended) that I can never get just a stable list of things to look at, comments or posts, sorted in some sort of static way. When I say I want the hot posts on “all”, after a few seconds a post that was posted less than a minute ago will pop up on the top, pushing the content around. This comment section is sorted by hot and the first comment has -1 points so I doubt it’s working as intended. Plus comments get pushed in the top too, so my page is always scrolling and I cant keep my place.
Is this my instance? The site? Just how it works?
That’s a quirk of Lemmy 0.17.4, which lemmy.world is running. It’s fixed in 0.18, but that version removes the captcha which lemmy.world needs to filter out bots. 0.18.1 restores the captcha, and the admins are going to try to upgrade later today.
oh this is great info! glad I asked. thanks!
I had the same issue when I set up the Lemmy web app on my Android. I’m not sure there’s a way around it. I’m using Connect for Lemmy now though and it’s a good enough substitute.
Unfortunately, until the devs of Boost or Sync finish their apps for Lemmy, we may have to settle with incomplete apps with features that are missing. I suppose pre-registering for those apps might speed things along though as devs see more and more people wanting their app, so you might do that to bide your time.