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Please, help us to better understand how we can effectively funnel reddit users into Lemmy across all demographics, leveraging the average Lemmings advantages like expertise in automation, ai and bots?

What tactics/strategies do you propose? Can we automate the process? Can we somehow add ai to make it more fashionable?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 142 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't worry about user numbers. Worry about developing niche communities here. With different personalities. That's the magic to make a garden grow.

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It doesn’t matter how niche, it matters how active we are. I’ve been bored by “hot” for a while since it’s just 1h old trash, and “active” just leads me to day old threads. I want to participate in 4 hour old threads that have a lot of comments and a lot of activity and people still replying.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Top 6 hours will only bring me the most upvoted across the site, not the most active for a community or anything like that. On Reddit, I used to get posts with a couple dozen comments for super niche communities that I’m subbed to on the hot filter. It was fun seeing those pop up and be active and highlighted on my feed.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

There is a new sorting (Best?) on the way with the new major version of the Lemmy backend, that takes a community's size into consideration. That should solve this issue.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Wait, aren't you just using active and checking in and replying every few days when you got a bit of time spare? 🤔

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Now we're active a minute ago

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed. We need both.

[–] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly! This isn’t about monetization, so raw numbers don’t matter. As long as a given community has enough active members to promote continued use and provide its members with interesting material, that’s enough.