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!
Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
The apps are all still very new. The pace of development has been, however, absolutely astonishing. There are almost as many apps for Lemmy as there are for reddit. I am left speechless at the speed of development, truly.
Having said that, some things are not a priority, as you are probably aware.. Support for 2 accounts is one of them. may I ask why you need 2 accounts? I remind you that you don't have to have accounts in every server in order to cross-interact. An account on lemm.ee can give you access to pretty much every lemmy instance. That is the power of federation.
There are many reasons why you might want or need 2 accounts. Maybe you started on beehaw and want access to Lemmy.world content, or vice versa. Maybe you started on an instance and realised they don't do image hosting but you've already built up some activity on that account and don't want to completely give it up, so you create another one. Or maybe, just simply, you create an account on an instance only to find another you prefer the URL of but don't want to give up previous activity. Many reasons!