The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking “what is that?” It won’t be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there…
That’s the tactic that got me started on Reddit. For a while before the dreaded relaunch, many of the links on Digg were just linking to Reddit posts.
I’m already doing it as I can and sometime getting downvote, but I’m fine.
I wonder how long it’ll take before Reddit starts shadowdeleting anything containing links to Fediverse websites?
One week
It’s been one week since spez looked at me Cocked his head to the side and said, “I’m angry” Five days since I joined Lemmy Saying, “Get your API together, come back and see me” Three days since the living room I realized it’s the IPO’s fault, but couldn’t see it through Yesterday, Spez was blocking me But it’ll still be two days 'til he says he’s sorry
Oh, probably like -5 days. I’m sure they’d just be blacklisting domains, though. Linking to smaller, lesser-known instances that don’t literally have “Lemmy” in their URL might work, though. Especially if you don’t re-use any particular instance too frequently.
But that might also confuse people.
url/link shorting websites that used to be used to hide rickroll links all the time would probably work to get around that
I have an automod that links to all the other places my sub is on. It’s getting mass reported everyday. I have to manually approve them all.
Don’t overdo it or the links will be shadow banned for spam
I am going to delete my reddit account anyway. I will test their bottom line and there is nothing to lose.
Your name… OSRS does have F2P?
i have food but i still need it too
It’s a good idea, instead of “please join Lemmy/kbin”, just share posts and people get more interested on what is this
Good idea. Kind of like guerilla-marketing.
That‘s actually a smart idea. Thank you
Good idea! I just posted a link to r/politicalhumor.
Aaaannnddd…autodeleted by bot. Links to other sites are forbidden.
Just did that for the first time yesterday, actually!
Very smart idea, i think this will get users to get to Kbin/Lemmy
What if we called it kaboomy
That’s basically how I ended up here. Got exposed enough to the look and feel that I decided it wasn’t too bad and I wanted in on the fun.
Are you having fun yet?
Hm. Generally, yes. I’m on kbin.social. tl;dr: Fantastic and excellent social media alternative, but as someone that’s worked years in ITSec, I have some huge concerns.
Things I found surprising:
- Registration was intuitive and easy.
- There’s already a huge volume of good content readily available without having to “find it” (I had imagined it being more like ““the dark web””, i.e. you have to know what site you’re looking for
- Voting transparency omg holy shit. I remember when Reddit introduced vote fuzzing and it was the dumbest thing. At least on kbin, who upvotes/downvotes something is publicly viewable. So rather than “let’s fuzz the votes to throw off the bots”, simply showing who voted allows you to easily find the troll downvoting everything or a flood of bots or so on. I imagine there’s probably not much tooling around this yet, but there inevitably will be.
Things I’ve found confusing, concerning, or have questions about (feel free to point me in the direction of a good magazine or FAQ as well):
- WTF is boost vs upvote?
- Are usernames unique across the fediverse, or only across instances? (Is there anything preventing me from registering e.g. Cryst@kbin.social , then jumping on this thread and pretending to be you, or vice versa?)
- What happens if an instance closes up shop? Is there any way to migrate everyone’s data over to another instance?
- What happens if I decide I hate kbin.social admins, or you decide you hate lemmy.ca admins - are either of us able to fairly seamlessly move our identities from one server to another? Or would it be “nope, create a new account and start over”?
- On reddit, a lot of good things happen around flairing (users, posts). Does fediverse have an equivalent?
- Sometimes as I’m browsing I find myself on a different server (I think) and the language of the GUI is entirely switched to Arabic or similar. I still haven’t figured out how to fix that or even what’s doing it.
I still need to set up my own instance and play with that too.
I would love to pick one maybe two subreddits to focus on taking the top posts and just reposting them to the communities here, but I’m kinda waiting on community consolidation to get fixed so I don’t waste time posting to empty communities. Also if there was a Reddit to Lemmy post migration script or something to automate it that would be awesome
If anybody wants to share a link to kbin/Lemmy so people join, don’t send the official Lemmy or Kbin page (or the official page of any federated platform) nor the link to any given server. Share instead links to the Join the fediverse wiki, fedeverse party, etc that have lists of servers and also have posts explaining anything a person needs to know to start an account on any decentralized platform/server.
I’ve been kind of suggesting the same thing a few times inside of posts. I’m coming at it from the perspective of having had to do a lot of in-person recruiting for voluntary activities, mentoring, and teaching – you cannot tell people things like “you should just join lemmy/kbin” – you have to wait for them to ask “how do I join lemmy/kbin?”
That’s okay! It just means that the focus when introducing people to it has to be “here’s what you’re missing”, positive about where they could go rather than negative about where they are.
It’s an uphill battle trying to argue with people who do have a point about it being harder to use (we shouldn’t gaslight people), but they’re also saying what the audience is wanting to hear because it gives them permission to do nothing.
How many are just admin accounts or sock puppets for some agenda or another anyway?
Consider focusing on the positive – link to specific posts on these systems that are objectively worth going to participate in. They don’t need an account to read and enjoy.
Then, if they discover that they wish that they could participate in the thread – that is the time to explain that they should just join whatever instance the post they really enjoyed was on for starters. They’ll realize that they can see magazines from other instances, probably after a week when they realize other instance domain names are showing up on things. Then some nice person explains what’s going on.
And now they’ve convinced themselves it’s worth joining…
This is a really good idea, hopefully it will pull more people to our communities.
