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!

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    I think for now the biggest holdouts will be the smaller Reddit communities. We’ve got pics/aww/cats/news/worldnews and a lot of tech subreddits covered, it’s the more casual/normie content that will be missing at first. Things like /r/relationships, /r/sex, /r/parenting, trade related subreddits (/r/AskElectricians, /r/plumbing), generally subreddits that are made of less technologically inclined people where Lemmy’s barrier to entry might be problematic.

    There’s probably also a fairly large amount of NSFW related subreddits that will have more trouble finding a new home as that kind of content is a bit of a legal nightmare to host with the inevitable jailbait and CSAM to moderate.

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      I completely agree, especially the discussion-based communities. Those will probably take longer to really get off the ground since they need a decent community size to really work.

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      Yeah, sorry to say lads, but for as long as this place doesn’t have a couple dota 2 threads daily, I’ll keep checking reddit on desktop.

      On the matter of NSFW, I heard that lemmynsfw changes admin and the new guy is a prude or something. Dunno what the hell they banned, but I heard that people were already bemoaning the fact porn is getting banned on lemmy super fast too.

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      Yeah, that’s what I’m realizing too. I just don’t see /r/baseball and the subs for each MLB team migration over anytime soon, which are communities I will really miss. They all have Discord servers, but they’re fairly vacant overall (though Reddit content migrates much more one-to-one over rto Lemmy than Discord).

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      Yeah, that’s what I’m realizing too. I just don’t see /r/baseball and the subs for each MLB team migration over anytime soon, which are communities I will really miss. They all have Discord servers, but they’re fairly vacant overall (though Reddit content migrates much more one-to-one over rto Lemmy than Discord).

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      Yeah, that’s what I’m realizing too. I just don’t see /r/baseball and the subs for each MLB team migration over anytime soon, which are communities I will really miss. They all have Discord servers, but they’re fairly vacant overall (though Reddit content migrates much more one-to-one over rto Lemmy than Discord).