We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.
Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.
Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!
Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.
Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.
For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.
Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.
Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!
As a programmer myself I get what you're saying. But for the average user -I suspect- it is just extra, unimportant, information which could be confusing. (It adds no value nor importance)
I would say keeping consistent behavior so as not to confuse users is of value. Also stuff like "Am I on my local instance? It doesn't actually say anywhere." This is important information because different instances have different codes of conduct, which users should keep in mind.
Which does give me an opportunity to whinge about something: Instances usually post their rules in the sidebar of their homepage, which as far as I can tell cannot be viewed from within an account on another instance. I'm on sh.itjust.works; if I want to look at lemmy.world's home page to read their code of conduct I have to awkwardly go to lemmy.world, it tells me I'm not signed in up in the corner, then I have to go back over to sh.itjust.works to participate in discussions.
Perhaps the instances' home sidebar should be mirrored beneath the community sidebar for easy reference?
That is my point. Users should not be burdened by such things. Sure, a site has a code of conduct, but if I need to keep track of multiple codes of conducts on "one site" it becomes a burden. Again, just my thoughts, I hope it will work out. Rooting for lemmy and the downfall of Reddit at this point (for no other reason that I am an unreasonably moral bitch).
Subreddits had different “codes of conduct” as well. Every single subreddit has different community rules while the overall centralized site also has an over-arching code of conduct. I suppose there were users who just ignored this completely, I assume the same will be true anywhere else.
I don’t think this is anything novel or confusing - but I agree with above commenter who said the rules should be somewhere visible and easy to access for people from other instances.