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!
Nah, you still don't need to open their own link. That's something that's I think is in the works to be streamlined but is doable with browser extensions, when you click on one link you should get to open the post's "local" copy on your instance, which would allow you to post your comment there, and that local copy would sync with the original in a bit so that your comment displays there as well. You should still be able to see the post's local copy if you preface it with your instance's url, but for doing it automatically yeah, third party clients are doing it already I believe and you can do it on your browser via userscripts. Editing to add that if you've subscribed to a particular community and are seeing it's posts there on your feed, you are basically doing just that, seeing it's local copy on your own instance. Which is why you can comment on them without needing to login on to the original community instance.
but you do know what i mean…the solution requires an extension to fix lol
It's in a similar vein to having RES for reddit. I never used it without it, so I don't mind it. But yeah, it's something that is being planned to be inbuilt by default so I still don't think you need to make an account elsewhere by any means. It's just appending the post link to your own instance's link. And again, all third party clients already do that by default. I'm on wefwef and it's been a breeze. Till then, if you're browsing on a desktop browser, this userscript does the job - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher The biggest benefit to having it would be that it rewrites the links not just on lemmy, but on other websites that have hyperlinks to it too. So even if you're browsing a website that shares a lem.mee link, it will open up on your own instance instead. Super useful to have not just for using inside of Lemmy, but outside of it too, for a seamless experience.