Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
On the other hand we could get a few more borderline leaving reddit users here… IDK, IMO it’s worth a shot.
Like I said, there are discords and redditors already doing this. One discord is doing 3PA icons, another was discussing between a QR code that links to Lemmy, or just the url. There are going to be tons of small “API” everywhere like the among us in the 2017 place, we’ll probably see large ones as well. Sending Lemmy users to reddit will do more harm than good.
Reddit has over 500 million monthly users. If we got 100,000 Lemmings to go over there, that would give them 0.02% more traffic. And realistically, it would be a miracle if even 10,000 of you fine folk participated in this plan.
Redditors protesting is fine, but ultimately means nothing, as we have seen time and time again. In order for the protest to mean something, people need to actually stop using reddit. Posting a million APIs and fuck spez is great and all, but next week everyone posting those will be back scrolling reddit.
Unless, they happen to encounter some Lemmy artwork and look into it. If we can save even one redditor from that hellscape and bring them to the green fields of Lemmy, it will be worth the miniscule difference in traffic.
I pointed out other things that people are doing, things that involve lemmy. At the end of the day, everyone who is tired of Reddits bullshit has already left. No one is going to leave Reddit just because we put the url to lemmy on the canvas. I just honestly don’t see the point of encouraging people away from Reddit by telling them to get on Reddit, even if it’s just a couple days.
I could not disagree more. Human beings are much less rational than you seem to believe.
I’m just trying to do my part to keep growing this platform. You don’t have to participate and it may not work. But to say you don’t see the point of trying to recruit redditors to Lemmy when we have fewer than 100,000 active users? Really? The point is we need more users!
Stop twisting my words. I didn’t say I don’t see the point of recruiting. The word “recruiting” is not seen in any of my comments. I said very specifically, that I don’t see the point of encouraging people away from Reddit by encouraging people to use Reddit. That is wholly different from “I just don’t see the point in recruiting.” I understand the need to recruit, I just find it completely illogical that you’re encouraging people to use Reddit. Even if it’s for a couple of days, and “for a good cause”.
You have people who were seriously addicted to Reddit, but left anyways. Now you’re encouraging them to go back.
Ahh yes, you should have led with that. I suspected that’s what this whole conversation was really about, that people are scared to go back because they might get sucked back in. Which is relatively fair.
I’ve made many comments on reddit since I left, and every one of them was telling people to join Lemmy. I’m not a disciplined person and I was severely addicted to reddit, but I was never tempted to go back because the quality is so fucking bad compared to Lemmy.
But I get how some people might prefer to keep their distance. I’m sorry I misinterpreted your point in my last comment, I now see where you were coming from a bit more clearly.
This ☝️. Even the memes, which I thought would be a lot worse, surprised me a lot, like really high quality and by people that mostly know meme history.
Just high quality content all around. Not a lot of it, but high quality.
Indeed.
You really are the man, 0x4E4F
No it’s not. Everybody worth keeping has already moved to lemmy by now. The stragglers are the ones who cannot see the big picture and the anti blackout protests.
Most people haven’t even heard of Lemmy, even if they want something to replace Reddit. You’re only here because you had the good fortune to learn about Lemmy already. Let’s give others that fortune as well.
Agree with this. Like me, I wasn’t active on Reddit for about a year, it was pure luck that I started being active again right before the protests.