Jotting some quick notes I’ve observed so far from running /m/scifi for a couple of weeks and getting to 3K subscribers:

  • Even though most people will return to Reddit and it’ll be ‘business as usual’ - the seeds of destruction are already in place.
  • No one is coming to a place where there’s nothing to read / think about / interact with
  • The thing that made Reddit great is content - we came there for content. So when it comes to asking ‘how can we grow Kbin?’ the answer is simple: It’s the content, stupid.
  • Reddit has tons of free content - in the spirit of being a #chaoticgood, we can grab the best parts of that content and use it to make Kbin an interesting, thoughtful place to be
  • Creating spaces with well-thought-out rules to encourage inclusivity, collaborate, and mutual respect. It’s working out well for /m/scifi
  • Redditors know what’s up - they’re pissed at Spez but there’s not much they can do about it. They’ll vote with their feet if we give them a new place to come to.

Thoughts?

  • Hari Seldon@lemm.ee
    9·
    1 year ago

    You’re right.

    I joined Lemmy two weeks ago, yet, I still spend most of my “Social network time” on Reddit. And the reason is that Reddit has more things to see, more interesting posts to interact with and so on.

    I think that we that are already here should “prepare the place” so that others may come. And preparing the place means exactly creating posts and commenting. As simple as that.

    • keanu0396@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      I’m going cold turkey on Reddit for exactly this reason. I realised that if I allowed myself to use Reddit if I couldn’t find the content I want elsewhere, then I’ll never actually leave it.

      Instead I’m trying to now use Lemmy to find the communities that I’m interested it, and to make the content that I’d like to see.

      • inkican@kbin.socialOP
        8·
        1 year ago

        Smart. What’s interesting about it is that the redditors who have left are pretty salty, so I’ve been accused of being a content farmer for posting content to m/todayIlearned. I was like, dude, there’s no karma for posting links. I’m just doing this to be kind, no karma involved. People have a lot of PTSD from the culture of reddit.

      • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        This. I quit cold Turkey when I saw that spez wants to make Reddit like twitter and he likes Elon Musk. Nope. Fuck that I’m out

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      And preparing the place means exactly creating posts and commenting. As simple as that.

      It also means subscribing to remote groups so that they federate and populate in advance of more people arriving.