I tried multiple times to win over H.P.-communities to join Lemmy, until now with no success. Usually they either dont reply, threaten to ban me (Reddit) or say they dont have the time.
The latter happened to me just recently. They heard about the Fediverse, think its cool, but are already overwhelmed with keeping the site up.
What do you think here? Are you having similar experiences? Are you even doing it? Whould it be a good idea to propose a minimal solution like RSS-integration rather than full AP-support?
In the past, I would comment about Lemmy whenever there were posts about reddit messing up, and would get a mostly favorable response. I also got positive responses from privacy focused communities, who tend to be more willing try alternatives since they already are willing to switch or compromise on apps for increased privacy.
Not a forum, but I was at a boardgame night with some old friends a few weeks ago and they were talking about Reddit, and I tried to pitch Lemmy. They were completely uninterested. They just didn’t see the issues with Reddit that ruined the experience for me, like rampant bots and overzealous moderation.
If they are hosting their own forum, an alternative could be NodeBB or Discourse who both are part of the fediverse and (should) work well with Lemmy
The association with hexbear has tainted Lemmy enough that it’s a hard sell. I have to convince them it’s not all an edgy echo chamber of pretend leftists
I have to convince them it’s not all an edgy echo chamber of pretend leftists
Hard to do that when all I see is that tbh
Fediverse is mostly unwelcoming–on the UX side but mostly the people themselves
It really depends on the communities. And when the comparison is Reddit, Lemmy on average is less agressive
Not too successful so far.
I think a strategy worth trying might be to grow the r/redditalternatives and r/lemmy subreddits, and direct users to those, rather than to Lemmy directly.
If we can get Redditors talking about Lemmy, that would help spread awareness.
