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!

  • valth@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    New to Lemmy (I’ve deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I’m still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I’ll have a different user?

    • fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.

      Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.

    • tetraodon@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      No benefit in join more than one server, unless you want to have more than one identity. You can post on any server, and subscribe to any discussion group as long as your instance is federated with them.

    • valth@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the clarifications, people! Another note, i was looking for an android app to use access Lemmy on the mobile. The app Litoff was recommended. I agree. It’s really nice…

      • pau_hana@vlemmy.netEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’ve started using the app Jerboa on Android, and I’m quite happy with it so far. It is from the same github user Dessalines who created Lemmy. I had to wait until the instance I use updated to version 0.18, though.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think you would have to have multiple accounts if you wanted to start/moderate communities on multiple instances. I…think?..you’re only allowed to start/mod communities on your home instance.