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:
- https://fedi.tips/
- https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-the-fediverse-and-can-it-decentralize-the-web/
- Graphic: How federation works https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14ier24/for_anyone_wondering_how_lemmy_works_and_is/
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities - explorer
- Awesome Lemmy Instances has a list where you can see how many instances block/are blocked by each other https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances. This can help you pick an instance to create your community on.
- https://join-lemmy.org/instances - Click on an instance, and look at the right sidebar. It will list local rules of the instance. You can also browse the “local” feed to see what kind of communities live on that specific server.
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.
Not really. To do that the system would have to message everyone who posted or commented in any of the threads, and I didn’t get to that stage.
My original plan was:
Profit. Start seeing a bigger mass of people joining Lemmy via the “fediversed” instances.This plan stopped at step #2 because I did not expect to have so many people here browsing by “all” and then complaining about the flood of content from the mirrors. So the absolute majority of Reddit users never actually were made aware of the mirrored content. I still think it’s illogical, but I gave up on convincing hordes of people by arguing with “logic”.
Agree, but it’s also a problem of pure lack of content. Now that I disabled the mirrors from alien.top, I honestly miss the niche communities that I participated and it is taking quite a bit of willpower to avoid saying “screw it” and re-joining the subs I participated there.