Moving to the fediverse

Hi guys, are you familiar with the fediverse? It’s an open-source reddit-alternative that is owned and run by no one. So it doesn’t suffer from the threat of a single hostile entity making drastic, unwanted changes, as we recently saw with reddit, resulting in the side-wide protests.

It would be great to have your subreddit join the fediverse! If you do, I would suggest not using lemmy.world, as it’s already the largest instance and it’s better to spread things out so no one has too much control.

Info:

You can even create your own instance like /r/futurology and /r/piracy did https://futurology.today, https://lemmy.dbzer0.com. If you do, you may want to seed your community with content https://futurology.today/post/166237.

Once you make a community on Lemmy you could sticky a post in your sub to let your community know, and/or create an automod sticky in each thread.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    I’m working with a few subreddits and their Lemmy equivalents, and I’d strongly recommend against this approach. As people have said, it sounds spammy and it would make the mods more suspicious of the Fediverse when someone comes along to actually try and work on stuff with them

    It’s better to have this happen organically, but if you want to plan it out, what I’d recommend is work with one or two subreddit(s) you’re familiar with. Also know that you might have to take on the majority of the setup and moderation initially. When reaching out, be specific about the needs of the subreddit and why the Lemmy community might help the community, and be cool with them saying no.

    Different ways it might look:

    • copy in the subreddit rules (when it makes sense) and add mods from the sub, then let them run with it
    • copy in the rules and have it be an official relationship between the communities where each just recommends the other

    There’s no script because each time I reached out the situation was different. I can write up more on what’s worked well for me but that’s the gist of it

    • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      This is the way if you want any movement. Start the communities yourself and curate/nurture them. Hand them off to a mod or trusted member that wants to break away from Le Reddit.

    • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It’s better to have this happen organically

      Of course, but organic moves seem to be done at this point.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Agreed, so you’re welcome to take initiative! More just don’t send a boilerplate message around everywhere :)

        I appreciate that you’re working on building things up. That’s how we make the fediverse better for everyone

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Sounds approach. I tend to do it as well. The more organic and tailored you are, the higher the success chance is.