Shall we embrace cross posting?
Shall we have links in our bios if we have accounts on both? Is anyone here actively using both at the same time? How’s it going?
Any advocacy on the sub-reddits by cross posting lemmy threads/comments and maybe doing more?
Or we just ignore each other?
Shall we embrace crossposting? – Absolutely. Most content on Reddit is crossposted from god knows where. It’s how sites like this work.
Shall we have links in our bios? – Depends. I certainly won’t-
Advocacy? – I was never active enough over there to speak to that, but… up to you. I’m waiting to hear that speaking of alternatives has become a bannable offence.
Ignore?
– I think that’s wrong. See 1 as for why.
Well said!
I’ve taken the new reddit direction as a challenge to the users to see how much trouble we can cause.
First to the Key!
Ever go on a date with someone and all they talk about is their ex?
Civilly? I deleted my reddit account but I really don’t feel aggrieved by people who stayed there.
I’m not going back to reddit so “interacting” for me will be limited to if they come here
I bear ongoing users no ill will, I’ve just already deleted my account and I’m just not going to support reddit by using it anymore even as a lurker
Reddit feels like addiction to me, while the fediverse feels exciting and like I’m having real conversations with people.
I have popped on to Reddit a couple of times to help with a couple of subs I’m a part of but god it’s just trash over there to me now…I really don’t want to be there. I deeply resent what they’ve done to it over time.
The amount of times I have been bored and opened my phone to reddit out of reflex is shocking. I need to do a technology fast or something
It’s actually wild. The addiction is very real.
You’re just going to end up being bored again, opening your phone to lemmy out of reflex someday.
There isn’t much OC in Reddit posts. It’s strength has always been as an aggregator with community discussions. I think repost the original sources but not the Reddit links.
Eventually our technology and civilisation will surpass them and we will have to consider if they have achieved the required maturity to join our Federation. Until then we should observe and keep our presence secret.
I don’t mind if there’s no cross posting. I’m sure people of a particular instance and board will be able to generate and aggregate content just fine on their own.
We should copy content from reddit, but label it “repost from 4chan”, so they have to try to crawl 4chan archives to see if the content was actually first posted on Reddit
make it expensive for them to claim ownership of UGC
Crossposting in a context of a platform rife with re-postings doesn’t sound too appealing.
Repeat content in inevitable, of course. But on Reddit, it is accelerated because of the karma system, bots, and karma farming. The desire for more content and traffic in the fediverse is to improve the quality of experience for existing users and to make it more enticing to new ones joining. I would argue that is not the purpose of content generation on Reddit.
Maybe I’m muddying that aspect of the question, though.
Although cross-posting things from Reddit would help, by helping supply a stream of new content for users to talk about, while the community is small, and doesn’t have that much to stay active.
The community is less enticing to new users if it seems “dead” because of a low number of infrequent posts.
We must be compassionate to our lost brothers and sisters, and guide them gently to the light of federation.
I think ignoring is the wrong way to go for sure. Personally I un-installed my app for Lemmy but I might reinstall it.
The reason I might reinstall it is just to help improve Lemmy. For example, most of my news for League of Legends came from the subreddit and the Lemmy community I found is basically dead. So, if I want to help improve Lemmy I could look at reddit for the news and then repost it (linking the original source, not reddit).
Also, think about all the subreddits that make content from Twitter and Tumblr, it’s possible some people will want to be on Reddit and Lemmy for the same reason.
Yea I think there’s a healthy perspective here. Many want Twitter and Reddit to die completely. Realistically, that won’t happen, not soon anyway. What’s happening now is more of a fracturing where different people can be happy in different places in the same way that there was a time when everyone was either on Twitter or Facebook and that time passed too.
Reddit is determined to be 9gag. Lots of people like 9gag.
Best we can do is offer somewhere where the people who were on reddit for reddit have somewhere to go.
At the moment, they’re a bit on the “too big to fail” side. Digg is still around, despite much of the user base leaving for Reddit, and I imagine both Twitter and Reddit will still be around in some shape or form, even if Lemmy/Mastodon somehow make it big in the same way.
That’s not even getting into things like how Reddit posts are still some of the more useful sources of information/discussion on the internet, due to the decline of forums and bulletin boards, so people will end up returning to it in some shape or form, if only to try and get recommendations/solve problems that they’re having.
What might make them more likely to die is if they’re not profitable, and they run out of money without being bought up, but that’s less everyone leaving, and more the service shutting up shop overnight.
Which both parties seem to be trying to do in one way or another. Twitter is haemorrhaging money, and Reddit’s recent controversies can’t be doing good things to its stock price if the CEO more or less implied the company was not competent enough to make their own app profitable.
I’ve been waiting for someone to make a Curatedtumblr community. I think all the users actually left for Tumblr.
Well tumblr are supposed to come to the fediverse at some point. And they reportedly were receiving people from the Twitter migration.
There does seem to be one if you search across all Lemmy communities, but it is dead and very tiny.
Some of the users might also have retreated to the discord server, since /r/CuratedTumblr had an official one, while others just went for tumblr directly.
I rolled up a Tumblr account because I was thinking the same thing, but it really doesn’t fill the social media niche I want like Reddit.
Lemmy is doing a much better job of that, although I’m curious to see what happens to the user base as time goes on.
Exactly this. Lemmy is a little dead without content for us to comment on. I see no problem with reddit lurkers finding information and posting the original website’s link. Like you said, social media is awash with reposts from other social media sites. I often joke with what new meme my wife may have found on FB that I saw it on reddit first.
They are all dead to me.
Reddshirts.
Are we the Romulans or are we the Vulcans?
We’re Babylon 5. Steve Huffman is President Clark.
Escaping to Romulus when the purported followers of Surak became rigid and demanding in their pursuit of an ordered technocratic society, to an intolerable degree. We leave the hallowed halls of our ancestors: their katras, their monuments, their desert cities. We arrive refugees, but here at least we can build a new republic where power is willingly shared.
Definitely the Vulcans.
One of the most annoying things about Mastodon during the Twitter migration at the beginning of this year was that the only thing Mastodon wanted to talk about was “the Birdsite.”
It sure would be nice if we could get through that phase of the Reddit migration at a vastly accelerated pace.
I’m fine with the site being a black sheep, but most of us are refugees. We are going to have growing pains and people will trickle/stream in over time. The best way to ensure the fedverse dies before living is to make talk about Reddit a taboo or a thing to ridicule. People are going to complain, just don’t engage and over time it’ll die out.
At the moment I personally welcome cross posting. I’m dying for content right now. Haven’t found a lot of mags to join. I would start some but I would be shit for modding or content creation.
We need to make a request to the devs to autocorrect “Reddit” to “Cabbage” just to spice things up a bit.
Can we do John Oliver instead?
“Shits really gone downhill on John Oliver since all the subs started only posting pics of John Oliver”
This is going to happen again in July when the 3PAs die. Allowing people to vent about reddit will make them more likely to want to spend more time here.
“Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to shit talk forever.”
