However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc .., snuck inbetween of the community posts I'm actually interested in.

How can we convince the people over there to move away?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 26 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Advertise one instance instead of just saying "join lemmy"

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Blaze is doing precisely that - recommending lemm.ee, several initial communities to check out, the Voyager app, etc.

Edit: A major downside to recommending lemm.ee though is that it federates with literally all of the big 3. So someone can walk into e.g. chapotraphouse@hexbear.net without knowing the first thing about what to expect there, followed promptly by leaving Lemmy altogether. Due to lemm.ee's approach of making everything "opt-out" rather than "opt-in" it takes quite a bit of catching up to understand things e.g. what "instances" are and how to block users from them (Pro-Tip: in either base Lemmy or Voyager, you literally cannot do it, though PieFed, Sync, or Connect each offer that capability). It's a bit like having an email account that offers no spam filtering!? Which is fine if that's what people want but doesn't seem geared for "mainstream" Redditors who want to come here "casually".

For those, if PieFed was a bit better developed in its UI it would be perfect. Lemmy.cafe also looks like a great option (Tesseract on dubvee.org too except I think it's only a single admin, and yet quite impressive nonetheless, though toxic people from Reddit would have a terrible & short-lived time there hehe:-P).

[–] Blaze 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As I've been using lemmy.cafe for a while now, I might switch to it as my "curious new joiner" recommendation.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Assuming it is stable (there was some question about that due to its running beta software?), that sounds like a great idea!:-)

Nothing will ever be perfect ofc, and surely there are tons of alt accounts on Lemmy.World and elsewhere, but that seems like it would help ease people more gently into Lemmy, without having to endure as much culture shock as seeing e.g. the anti-Western posts constantly streaming out from the big 3.

Especially for a more "mainstream" audience - e.g. expecting things to "just work" - from Reddit and even more so people who merely search the internet.

And then if people really WANT to see literally everything, there's always lemm.ee that seems legit great for someone who knows that going in.

PieFed seems even more ideal in terms of this functionality but... its UI definitely needs more than a little polish before it's fully mainstream.

I don't know how you have time to do so much to help build this place, but I am enthused to see it nonetheless!:-)

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (7 replies)