Whats the best way to take action for me as a single user? What kind of posts should I focus on making? Ive heard of fetching reddit posts, maybe I could do that if theres like an easy process to do so, I’d happily feed some communities I like with posts from the silicon valley mafia platform to this platform!
Also whats the name of this platform? I registered under feddit org, is the umbrella term called fediverse? Accroding to wiki then this(fediverse) should be linked to platforms like pixelfed and mastadon too, is it? How do I see content from them or in what way are these platforms interlinked with this reddit styled one?
Don’t fetch reddit posts. Just create content. Comment and upvote or downvote stuff. And hack your friends DNS so when they type in reddit they come to lemmy.
Don’t try to mirror something from reddit. There’s an instance that does that, lemmit.online, and many if not most instances have defederated because it’s a blight on the land.
It’s counterintuitive but making a bot to post reddit content here acqually squashes engagement here.
The best thing to do is to post content.
We’re not interested in being competition. Just a nice alternative.
We’re not? I’d love to see this take down Reddit, as miraculous as that’d be.
Most people here do not give a shit about Reddit anymore and frankly are tired of hearing about it. We really don’t want the dregs of Reddit coming over here. We got most of the good people when the API bullshit started 2 years ago, and that’s why this place is great. We don’t want to become what we left behind.
If anything takes out Reddit, it will be Reddit itself
People around here have better things to do
I hope it ends up being flipped upside down for profit like the Meta platforms.
It’s all small video posts although their essence was connecting with friends and exhibiting pictures/memory/photography. Now these use cases are actively changed into smartphone zombie habits through their UX.
I hope reddit will follow the same fate and this platform here will be the new forums-for-everyone and all the useful questions will be found through fediverse when entering your hyper specific search engine request
But currently I haven’t found my communities yet and most of which are kinda inactive. Some having only a monthly post, others even none at all
No one can speak for everyone else, but I personally would prefer reddit remains the main stream aggregator and lemmy can just rumble along.
I’d love to see lemmy mature and evolve and be awesome but IMO it’s a mistake to think that attracting reddit users is the way to achieve that.
Whats the best way to take action for me as a single user?
That’s a tough question, because a lot of us explicitly don’t want this to become reddit, or as large as reddit (I am of this opinion myself). If you’re looking for things like a community for the city you live in, I think that’s far better served by creating a regional instance. Midwest.social is a good example of that, as is yall.theatl.social, an Atlanta-focused instance.
What kind of posts should I focus on making?
Whatever you want to make, the world (and the fediverse) is your oyster.
Ive heard of fetching reddit posts, maybe I could do that if theres like an easy process to do so, I’d happily feed some communities I like with posts from the silicon valley mafia platform to this platform!
Once again, a lot of us would prefer to not have that but have original content and discussions. Others may feel differently, however this is certainly my own opinion.
Also whats the name of this platform?
Lemmy. (At least for feddit.org, specifically)
I registered under feddit org, is the umbrella term called fediverse?
Yes, it is called the fediverse.
Accroding to wiki then this(fediverse) should be linked to platforms like pixelfed and mastadon too, is it?
Technically, yes, they all run on an underlying architecture called ActivityPub. Lemmy and Mastadon can see each other, but most people don’t browse between them that way because of how differently they work. Lemmy posts look weird on Mastodon and vice versa. Mastodon doesn’t have the same kind of threaded conversations, it’s conversation trees are like Twitters. I, for example, have a different Mastodon (Sharkey) account and Lemmy account because it’s easier for me to have them be separate entities even though they can technically connect. Many Lemmy instances host similar Mastodon instances, like my instance lemmy.blahaj.zone has a Mastodon instance at blahaj.zone. The aforementioned yall.theatl.social has a Mastodon instance at theatl.social.
How do I see content from them or in what way are these platforms interlinked with this reddit styled one?
That one I can’t answer because I haven’t tried it myself.
But here’s a link I did a quick search for that seems to have instructions on how you can. I haven’t tried it myself so your mileage may vary.
https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/
Feel free to join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, it’s the place where active posters discuss their experiences
