Corgana

joined 2 years ago
[–] Corgana@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I've never seen an ad-based tier on a Mastodon instance and they do just fine 🤷‍♂️

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

only be indexed if you are using the google

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

I opened this thread to type out this exact comment but somehow you typed up the exact same thing before me?

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 12 hours ago

Yes absolutely, it depends on the context. The overall goal of such a community I think should just be to "put it out there", and have people on reddit at least casually aware that Lemmy exists the same way people on Twitter are (now) aware of BlueSky and Mastodon.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago

Certainly would fit here but a dedicated space I think would function better for coordinating a specific task.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I was a mod for over a decade, believe me even if it gets removed, a quickly-upvoted comment will still get tons of attention 😈

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I made a comment elsewhere in this thread, but I would be interested in helping out with a recruitment effort! Maybe it's time to set up a Lemmy "get the word out" community?

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I would be interested in helping with a coordinated effort to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit. Sometimes I check in on /r/RedditAlternatives and it's clear 90% of the people who would be happy with Lemmy have already left for Lemmy. But there are many threads where a simple "maybe check out Lemmy I like it a lot" could do a lot of help. It's not like users need to quit Reddit but every post on a Lemmy instance (even if it's also on Reddit) helps make our instances more appealing.

Perhaps setting up a community here to link to such threads could be a useful idea? And we could get talking points aligned as well.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You know one Christmas I would like the family to just quietly enjoy a good Christian Star Trek meme without someone mentioning Doctor Who!

 
[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ok sorry, where I'm from saying you are "truly tired" of something implies you think it's bad.

 

"Sure, The Borg have been a bit of a problem. Their tendency toward mass assimilation and the stripping of individuality and personal freedom doesn’t exactly jibe with our idea of what makes a great leader. But let’s be honest. Kathryn Janeway hasn’t been perfect."

 
 

I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

 
 
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