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!
Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
Yup. Engagement draws people.
I basically never upvoted on reddit, but I need to change that here.
Same here! I’m going to try to be more involved but will I add anything of quality? Prob not! 😂
this is relatable, and i felt inclined to comment to agree lol
Yeah same here, I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform
I agree. Without engagement, it will lack that sense of community that reddit had.
We’ll get there - it’s just about chatting when you have something to offer; we get to be the stimuli, the response or both
Like, for me, I don’t start conversations particularly often - but I can certainty riff on topics fed add things along the way once the ball is rolling. That’s why I’ve always been more of a comments section person. Guess I’ll have to step out and try posting more!
I think I’ve made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.
I’ve been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.
I believe it’s worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.
This is my first comment as a reddit refugee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just made my account today after sync died, and I don’t know what else to do so here I am lol
Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!
This is the way
Absolutely, I’m way more actively engaged on Lemmy than I was in the recent past on Reddit. I feel like the community isn’t too flooded yet, and conversation can be more easily seen. I’m very excited for the future here.
Yep, the perception of business and web traffic is what drives actual traffic
Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
Thanks for pointing me towards this. Loving wefwef. Works wonderfully!
Is it an iOS app? I can’t find it in the Android Google or Samsung store.
It’s a mobile web app, so iOS users can visit https://wefwef.app using Safari, then click the Share icon, the click ‘Add to Home Screen’.
I don’t use Android so I don’t know if there’s a similar process to turn a link to a website into an icon on the Home Screen. I just did a web search and found this website, which I hope is useful for you https://beebom.com/ways-turn-any-website-android-app/
(Also I’m new to wefwef and this is my first comment using it)
Yeah it’s pretty much the same. PWAs are great when developed well and cross platform. Unfortunately they usually are not developed well and push you to go to their mobile apps.
Seems like a good way to not have to mess around with App Store approval and stuff though
Sure is. Things like payment systems don’t require giving the stores 40% of their cut too and notifications / background / permission limits on apps. Unfortunately PWAs got the issue of harder for average user to install and thus native apps win.
Is it that hard for people? I just opened in a browser and hit the button to add it to the home page. Easy.
Should be platform agnostic, it’s a browser app.
It’s a web app instead of native app. I’m using https://wefwef.app/
They said they are adding an android skin as well on the road map. I’m assuming you can simply use it on an android phone now, although I haven’t tested so could be wrong.
https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
I’m not sure how you do it on android but in iOS you can add it to your Home Screen and it opens up similar to how a native app would.
of all the android apps I’ve tried, wefwef seems the best for me, especially as a fan of pretty GUI
I would love an Android native app, but this actually looks pretty great. This and Jerboa are the closest I’ve seen to RIF so far.
Jerboa strikes me as RiF without the features and usability I liked about that app, at least for now, hopefully it gets better
It’s definitely got a lot of growing and improvement to do, but I think it has a lot of potential once it works out its kinks and can get through the backlog of enhancement recommendations.
I think there’s also an iOS app, but you can just go to https://wefwef.app as well
Looks great! Just downloaded the PWA. I’ve been installing of them, though lol. So far, I’ve got Jerboa, Connect, Liftoff, the kbin PWA and now this one!
Lemmymon - gotta catch 'em all!
Hermes, mon
Nah it’s just a web app that you can save to your Home Screen. Works on pretty much any modern device with a browser that way.
Wefwef is great, very pretty :)
I come from Android land so I can’t compare it to Apollo but it certainly looks very good
Just started using this, and I have to say… wefwef is way better than any of the current apps. By a lot.
Wow thank you for this, this really is the best app I’ve tried so far. Love a good webapp.
I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy.
How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?
Same problem with Mastodon.
So many of the most popular posts are self referential - about Mastodon, Twitter or Elon Musk.
Yeah. Sometimes it feels like it’s just people patting themselves on the back for not using Reddit, which is completely ok, but I’d also like to see other stuff. Like from subreddit I used to subscribe to.
I get it. It’s cathartic, and it’s nice to vent about it. It was similar during the digg > Reddit migration and it will naturally end on it’s own, but I do hope it doesn’t last too long.
Yeah, I think it’s partly a coping mechanism and partly just the current drama that everyone’s aware of, which makes it safe common ground to make jokes about, as well as pretty much the only thing most people can be fairly sure they have in common with others on a platform that is pretty new to them. A week or so ago Mastodon was pretty full of Titan stuff. Things will move on again.
We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight.
What’s happening tonight?
Yeah same here, I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform
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I tried creating an account on lemmy.world at first and could never get it to load correctly. Try joining another instance - lemmy.world is probably overloaded.
Edit: use lemmyverse.net to look through the available instances, their rules, and their uptime stats.
Really? The instance I’m using works perfectly. …probably because it’s special.
Oooooooooh! Lemmy-NitroSuperFastWow! That is a special one! It’s nice to hear they’ve got the special sauce over there.
I’m using wefwef.app on lemmy world and it works great. It might be a problem with individual clients or instances
Same client-instance combination and it’s unusable :(
First comment after migrating from Apollo. Tried Kbin for a bit and had trouble navigating and finding content. Switched to Lemmy.world and wefwef and it’s real good so far!!
I had issues with lemmy.world with comments not posting while using wefwef, I’m on lemm.me now and I feel it’s a lot smoother!
Can we do “no meta Mondays”
I think that would help a lot with content creation
like the concept a lot here. let’s start something
wow wefwef.app is nice. been using PC for a few weeks and this looks and feels great on phone.
It’s really great! It feels like Apollo did in terms of scrolling and interacting and commenting - and has multiple account support and honestly looks just like Apollo did. Super impressed with how functional wefwef is for a web app.
Will do! See what I did there?
I have always been a lurker but trying to be more active. Even posted in a few communities too!
I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform, so I’ll be trying my best lol
Warhammer 40k, Oldhammer, Tabletop Minis, and Battletech communities are open for business.
commenting to boost the algorithm (does this place have that?)
No, and hopefully it’s kept that way. Organic vote-driven post/comment promotion vs agendaed corporate-vision driven feed organization is a good thing for a democratic and defederated social media IMO
