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?

    • @yaphy
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      71 year ago

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

    • gon
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      41 year ago

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

  • @dystop
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    591 year ago

    er, nothing? I found out about lemmy from reddit

  • @[email protected]
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    371 year ago

    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.

    • zero_iq
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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.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          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!

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            That makes sense, from what I’ve seen kbin integrates with mastodon as well (I think you can even set it up so some mastodon hashtags get included in their versions of communities)

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Yeah I think you’re right. And they’ll hopefully fix their tech issues soon so we can all be one big happy family again haha

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

                It is! And I do want to figure out mastodon, if anything, for their Crafting/art community, but I’m having a bit of a hard time figuring ou if/how can I go around visiting other instances I know its possible somehow because users from different ones show up for me, but mastodon is the one in struggling with. It’s not like lemmy or kbin where I can see stuff, they prompt meto make ne an account before I can see anything and I just don’t know how to find the people in the other instances from mine yet. :(

                • @[email protected]
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                  01 year ago

                  The easiest way is to search for hashtags and click through to profiles that look like they post interesting stuff. You can also check out https://fedi.directory/ where there are suggested accounts to follow for all kinds of different topics. If you’ve not made an intro post there yet, do that too with the tag #introduction and any other tags you’re interested in, that way people will come to you!

                  Also what kind of crafts and do I already follow you there? 👀 lol

      • Fluffery
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        31 year ago

        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

        • SolidGrue
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          51 year ago

          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.

    • R0cket_M00se
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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

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.

  • @Glunkbor
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    351 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      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.

  • @kyrbi
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    251 year ago

    I dont think it’s againts rules, I found Lemmy because of Reddit.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware

    Rumor has it they banned a lot of mods and communities for encouraging exactly that to their subscribers, so it was considered quite risky.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Something weird happened to me, I was no longer subscribed to two of my most active subs after having been subscribed for a decade. So when they went private I was locked out. I had only messaged one moderator about the protest and they went private.

  • @[email protected]
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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.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    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.

    • ManuOP
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      61 year ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    There is r/lemmymigration and r/kbinmigration . Kbin got banned pretty quick, but seems reinstated now (at least I can see it on Stealth).

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        It’s inevitable that some communities and some instances will be run this type of fief lord, but I suspect that the fediverse will support a more diverse range of cultures, just by virtue of there being more to choose from.

  • RoundSparrow
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    131 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m genuinely asking and don’t mean this the way it sounds, but is this supposition or have you observed this yourself?

      Everyone says their own instances aren’t very resource intensive. Even the larger instances like lemmy.world don’t seem to have huge specs.

      Although there’s a lot of subscriptions there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming amount of content being produced. The most active threads in /home have like 150 comments over 2 days? I don’t have the data and this really is mere supposition but it just doesn’t seem like that much load.

      I did see they pushed a new version with some db optimisations so that’s probably an indicator that you’re right. Also things just feel unstable. Unusually long page load times or 500 errors just occasionally. Things definitely aren’t great I’m just not certain that db linkages are the problem.

      • RoundSparrow
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        21 year ago

        I’m genuinely asking and don’t mean this the way it sounds, but is this supposition or have you observed this yourself?

        Yes, and I’ve been building social media message systems since 1984, and I’m a published author on messaging systems. I described some of the data integrity and sever malfunctions on multiple systems that have small to large numbers of users, including my own system on Oracle Cloud that has only me as a developer/user. Example of how it is failing: https://lemmy.ml/comment/616698