Genuine question, since the subreddit r/BuyFromEU is becoming larger and larger, actual migration feels due. Of course, we should use both platforms but right now using Reddit is more valuable and hence this platform is relatively small…
Any ideas?
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I don’t think our goal here is to compete with reddit. We’re happy when people come to us from Reddit, but we don’t have to actively promote it. Of course lemmy was set up as an alternative to reddit, but we don’t have to repeat all the mistakes.
The Reddit mods remove posts mentioning Lemmy
I try to post on !buyeuropean@feddit.uk when I see an opportunity, but those posts get removed quite fast
They also ignore people asking about Lemmy promotion in the comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j3b8a4/weve_just_reached_100k_members_now_lets_break_out/
Otherwise, !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a few resources as pinned posts
i don’t think you should convince them. maybe suggest it and otherwise let them suffer by their own hand
Make Lemmy a nice place with a nice atmosphere, nice people and meaningful information and discussions. Once it shines, people will want to come here.
Never convince. If the topic comes up, mention it. Be a living example on how you are convinced Lemmy is the future and people will look into it.
Trying to convince someone is just like trying to change someone’s opinion. It never works. You will either be bothering them or they start thinking of arguments why you’re wrong and become suspicious because you’re selling them something.
Inception. Drop some hints and when they start looking around it’ll pop out.
Cat pictures
Here a take
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Baby Boomers: It’s like making phone calls directly to friends without going through a central operator.
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Generation X: Think of it as a collection of independent websites where you can share and connect, like a bunch of forums that can talk to each other.
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Millennials: Imagine a mix of social media platforms where you can post and interact freely, like having your own space on different apps that all connect.
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Generation Z: It’s like a giant chatroom where you can use different apps, but everyone can still see and talk to each other, no matter which one you’re on!
You should extend the samples to other categories like the nerd, the musician, the researcher, the mathematicians, the granmothers, … 👏👏👏
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Hand out posters at protests
The Reddit app is absolute dogshit, especially compared to something like voyager. That wasn’t the initial reason for me but it’s the biggest difference I’m noticing so far.
I guess, you cannot convince per se. When the onboarding experience is easy and the conent is convincing, people will stick around.
Nowadays I go with
Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content, and install an app using https://vger.app/settings/install.
Having more server focused on interests that are not technology
Taking for example this community, this should be together with Europe and yurop and ask European etc on a EU focused server, not scattered between generalistic instances that are also hard to navigate because they are a mess
create your own instance and start with your family.
Make it easier to actually use. Why are there so many options to sign up, what does it all mean, why do so many of those servers need verification, how do I know which ones I need to sign up for? It’s a mess. I have no idea if this comment will even work, does the server matter here?
I had the same thoughts the other day when I registered.
I’m decently tech savvy - run a Linux server at home with virtual machines and docker containers, self-host a website that’s written and updated through the terminal/command line. So not a genius but more inclined than many but I was at a pause when I opened up the site.
The pause was what does an instance mean, is it important later on and all sorts which I needed to figure out before trying to read the instances. Those are two massive barriers back to back when in reality none of it matters.
