The NFL season is about to start and it would be nice to have as many people as possible participating on the communities from https://nfl.community. Being a topic-specific instance with closed registrations, I’m aware that it is harder to be discovered, so I’m writing here with the intent of both promoting a bit and to find enthusiasts joining in.
If you’d like to help the instance and the team communities grow, there are two ways to help:
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Join https://fediverser.network, find the Lemmy community you want to help and apply to become a Community Ambassador. Community Ambassadors can add different sources of content and also send invites to “good” reddit users to migrate.
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Become a moderator of your team community. The communities are still all low in traffic, so I guess the hardest part for the moderators will be in finding and posting the type of content that you’d like to see in the community, in order to set out its tone.
As always, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask!
<…> comprehensive map of alternatives to Reddit <…>
How is it comprehensive if it only lists singular alternatives? Seems contradictory.
Baby steps. go take a look at /r/RedditAlternatives right now and see how many people are telling how difficult it is to migrate. We are not getting them out of enshittified platforms if they are thrown into a whole new paradigm. We need to ease them into it.
Proposed service doesn’t solve the issue, just delays it. Explained in https://lemmy.zip/comment/12893935
<…> the large majority of people are simply looking for a straightforward solution to their immediate needs.
Then they are not interested in the Fediverse, but like I mentioned they are looking for a clone of whatever enshitified platform they left. You will never keep these type of users, as they will just go back to where they came from and complain how shitty that different place is. The goal should be to attract lurkers and convert them into posters.
The code is open source, and you are welcome to run your own instance of Fediverser, and the recommendation database can be cloned or forked however you see fit.
To elevate Reddit user confusion about migration, we should have multiple Fediverser sites? If your primary goal is really to migrate Reddit users, then that is a horrible way to go about it. That would mean multiple Ambassadors, different recommendations and lack of any consistency between added communities, subreddits, recommendations and probably even instances.
The criteria also seem to not be applied universally. https://fediverser.network/subreddits/playstation lists a community with 0 interactions over several bigger and more active ones, same with https://fediverser.network/subreddits/xbox.
!rivian@lemmy.zip was rejected as a first alternative to subreddit after I expressed my hesitation in a private message to migrate the community to gearhead.town at this point in time.
only lists singular alternatives?
It’s comprehensive for the point of view of subreddits, not of the Lemmy communities. The idea is to have one recommendation for each subreddit, not of all communities that can theoretically be related to a given subreddit.
The goal should be to attract lurkers and convert them into posters.
That was also my argument when Reddit content was automatically mirrored on alien.top. That’s also one of the reasons that I’m giving preference to topic-based instances. If someone sets up a Fediverser instance to mirror Reddit content and sends them to a topic-based instance, there will be less complaints than if the they are pointing out to a community on an instance that happens to host one relevant community.
we should have multiple Fediverser sites?
Multiple fediverser sites is not a problem. Actually, there are already other deployments and I’m actively looking for other admins willing to deploy it on their servers.
The idea is to have one recommendation for each subreddit, not of all communities that can theoretically be related to a given subreddit.
I get that. And that’s why I say it’s not trying to help people understand Fediverse or ease them into it, but just to find a clone of the enshitified platform.
If someone sets up a Fediverser instance to mirror Reddit content <…>
There is 0 value in that. What’s the point of mirroring Reddit and then asking Reddit users to join here, instead of staying where they are, if the content is the same?
Multiple fediverser sites is not a problem. Actually, there are already other deployments and I’m actively looking for other admins willing to deploy it on their servers.
How does this help with easing users into Fediverse? You object to the idea of listing multiple alternatives because it’s confusing, but you are fine with multiple sites for the same recommendations. Seems contradictory.
Also, can you give me a reason for rejecting !rivian@lemmy.zip? And explaining why communities with 0 activity (e.g. !playstation@level-up.zone and !xbox@level-up.zone) are chosen over active ones?
Getting people out of Reddit and into the Fediverse is the goal. If that happens though different Fediverser instances, it’s fine.
What’s the point of mirroring Reddit if the content is the same?
Because Reddit’s content is not the problem, the rent seeking is. Their shitty client is. Their closing of the API is.
The people that are still on Reddit are not there out of loyalty, they are just there because that is where they find the content.
a reason for rejecting !rivian@lemmy.zip?
Because it is a community that is not on a topic specific instance with 3 posts, all by yourself.
why communities with 0 activity (e.g. !playstation@level-up.zone and !xbox@level-up.zone) are chosen over active ones?
That is my mistake. I was setting these communities for Reddit mirroring. What alternatives do you think should be in its place?
