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Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in (old.reddit.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Also, if you have doubts about brigading, Discuit have a brigading post on their meta community: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/pTyw2MZw

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd rather have people migrate over organically. I think Reddit was spoiled for me when it went from a niche collection of interesting people and topics to Facebook in a forum format. Almost anytime I go on r/all now i couldn't tell if the posts were recent or bot reposts from 5 years ago. The smaller subreddits still keep the spirit of the place going but the general community is just another social network.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What makes this non organic? I learned about reddit on digg and Lemmy on Reddit. Seemed organic to me.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

Maybe they just expect users to accidentally type in the name of a Lemmy instance into the URL bar? Is that organic enough?

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because OP is suggesting we brigade that subreddit and actively encourage people to use Lemmy. I believe eventually the users more like the OG redditors will come naturally on their own. Like with content from Lemmy shared on Reddit or other social media. Wait for the content and audience to bring them over than to self-advertise too much too early.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Reportedly Reddit has >500 million accounts, 73.1 million daily active users (DAUs) globally, and estimates for monthly unique visitors around 1.2 billion - the latter must be like non-account holders then? (I dunno how many are bots)

I seriously doubt that our tiny place even could "brigade" them if we tried in earnest (using humans rather than bots I mean).

Even so, I agree it's best to be friendly and therefore sensitive to the subject to not let that happen.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Well that seems like an idea tailor made to make this site never expand. Content follows users. If it weren't for people saying come use Lemmy I wouldn't be here. Nor would 99% of people. Same with reddit.

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing actually seems real on Reddit anymore. Comments are fake and every story someone tells is fake too. News is just pushed by propaganda algorithms. It’s all gone to 💩

I’ll enjoy it here while it lasts.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 hours ago

Everyone either seems angry or like a bot. Before I couldn't pull myself anyway, now I get bored a couple posts into the front page and then I just check it a few hobby subs that I hope can move here someday (mostly TTRPG ones lol).