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Yes, but you're preaching to the choir here. The number of people who are willing to take that initiative but haven't yet is only getting smaller. So now people are thinking about how to help along the group who isn't unwilling to move, just maybe not move alone.
Part of that is building the fediverse up, more communities, more activity, more of the stuff that made us want to go on Reddit beforehand. But the other part is seeing if there's a good way to motivate the next group migration.
I dunno man. I just jumped over today. Bummed about the way things went but I’ve been in denial about what Reddit has become for a while. There are more coming.
If they do come it will be out of curiosity. If the communities are not built and active they won't stay. So far the only active communities I've seen are the Fuck Reddit communities. The vast majority isn't interested in that.
We just have to keep making communities and content here that doesn’t revolve around Reddit. I spun up a kbin instance and have been posting news articles I find interesting on my News magazine. Those are manually curated links that I go out and find. I also set up a bot to pull news articles and automatically post them to a different dedicated community on my instance.
Part of the issue with the fediverse is content discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. Part of the issue is, to subscribe to content from another server you have to search the url or community slug for your instance to find it, pull it, and all you to subscribe to it. It’s slightly less of an issue on the “main” instances because some of the power users are likely going out and searching for new content to subscribe to from other servers.
Are you supposed to go to other instances to make promotion posts about your content on your server? Idk that feels bad and people generally don’t jive with self-promo/ads (maybe it’s more similar to when people would comment stuff like, “oh this belongs in r/ELI5 instead”)
Anyways just sharing some of my morning rambles. I have seen people recreating subreddits on kbin and Lemmy, which is a way to bring new users in to familiar content but it’ll be nice to see some original content and communities also form.
It's just loud right now as it's the hot topic while we watch the fire burn (and the fact a lot of us have just moved over.) It'll die down and people will flow to other communities with the ebb and flow.