3mo ago

Update: post deleted Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 weekly active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in

old.reddit.com

Found a Reddit alternative that’s kind of great

Also, if you have doubts about brigading, Discuit have a brigading post on their meta community: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/pTyw2MZw

Edit: as you can see, the post has been deleted

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3mo ago

Most popular thread on /r/Redditalternatives is promoting Discuit, despite it having 185 active users compared to the 44k on Lemmy. Feel free to chime in to share your experience

old.reddit.com /r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1hk6965/found_a_reddit_alternative_thats_kind_of_great/

70 comments

My guess is: Both were recommended, admins deleted the one mentioning Lemmy, since it's an actual threat.
- I don't even think so. My post about the latest version of Voyager explicitly mentions Lemmy and is still up, but with only 22 points
  
  Mentioning an app update isn't exactly a "call to action".
  "Lemmy Now Supports [New Feature]! Come join us now!" that is what might get removed

I'd rather have people migrate over organically. I think Reddit was spoiled for me when it went from a niche collection of interesting people and topics to Facebook in a forum format. Almost anytime I go on r/all now i couldn't tell if the posts were recent or bot reposts from 5 years ago. The smaller subreddits still keep the spirit of the place going but the general community is just another social network.
- Nothing actually seems real on Reddit anymore. Comments are fake and every story someone tells is fake too. News is just pushed by propaganda algorithms. It’s all gone to 💩
  I’ll enjoy it here while it lasts.
  
  Everyone either seems angry or like a bot. Before I couldn't pull myself anyway, now I get bored a couple posts into the front page and then I just check it a few hobby subs that I hope can move here someday (mostly TTRPG ones lol).
- What makes this non organic? I learned about reddit on digg and Lemmy on Reddit. Seemed organic to me.
  
  Maybe they just expect users to accidentally type in the name of a Lemmy instance into the URL bar? Is that organic enough?
  
  Because OP is suggesting we brigade that subreddit and actively encourage people to use Lemmy. I believe eventually the users more like the OG redditors will come naturally on their own. Like with content from Lemmy shared on Reddit or other social media. Wait for the content and audience to bring them over than to self-advertise too much too early.
- Part of my problem is my niche hobbies have not migrated over or are trying their damndest but 99.9% stayed on Reddit and only 0.1% is here. Lucky that it is 0.1% and not actually 0%. I do try to be part of that 0.1%, hence modding !otomegames@ani.social.
  I never went to r/all or any aggregate of top posts. I just left because some of my bigger hobby communities seemed meaner all of a sudden—wait, no, they are not meaner, they just forcibly sorted my home feed on mobile by controversial… and also the API drama, which didn't impact me because the app always worked fine for me, but I figured with the ragebaiting, might as well dip in solidarity with people actually being affected.

Most popular thread
only 94 points
I say let them try the website themselves. If they liked using that website, then it's okay. If they don't like it then it's okay too, maybe they'll try lemmy out.
- A comment saying
  Lemmy is federated, with communities scatered around different servers. If someone is gonna search for an alternative to reddit, I doubt they want to have to learn to navigate the fediverse.
  Currently has 15 votes, while my comment suggesting people to try Lemmy as it's bigger is down to 2.
  I'm not sure if Lemmy just has a very bad reputation over there in general, or if Discuit people are brigading the comments
  
  People find the "which 'Gaming' community is the real one?" issue very frustrating, because they currently have the illusion that they have access to everything all in one place. The idea that you can't have a discussion with a million other people is meaningless to them, totally crushed under the weight of FOMO.
  They look at Reddit, and they look at Lemmy, and they see that they're different, but don't really care why. They see that different (not more, just different) effort is required to navigate the space. They don't care that they just need a different mental model to understand the space -- they don't want one. And the design language of the space communicates to them that they don't need one.
  I'm not going to get up on my soapbox and rant and rave about this today -- I'm too tired, and it's too busy of a week -- but this is what I mean when I keep saying we can't win against centralized social media by aping the UI. "Lemmy" just isn't a Reddit replacement in the same way that another centralized service is. A Lemmy-based website, sure. But not the network of them.
  
  Reddit could be manipulating votes that mention Lemmy, or otherwise shadowbanning mentions of it.
  
  I think it could be the "Tankie Devs" FUD coming into play. People don't understand the devs don't control anything other than lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml, if they start injecting BS code, we could always fork it.
  But one "Devs are Tankies" comment would just scare the neolibs and centrists away. (conservatives are never joining, that's not just a dev PR issue, its the userbase being too "left wing" for them, also, I doubt conservatives care about corporations controlling everything)
  
  I thought your parent comment to it was very well stated and succinct.
  e.g. you don't have to know how it works anymore than someone needs to know how email or a combustion engine works - you simply click to go there and start reading stuff, if you like it then make an account and start participating as well.:-)
  Lemmy requires heavy curation to block extremist content if one is so inclined (as I am), but wasn't Reddit becoming that way too when we left it? And on X I think it simply can't be done at all. It would be neat if we could add a "political" tag to filter by (like NSFW/NSFL), but meh, it is what it is.
  Unlike some other instances, the default there is All, so they'll see the entirety of the Fediverse (minus Lemmygrad + Hexbear) even without an account or having to click anything at all. It's the perfect instance to recommend to the Reddit audience that is so heavily American (according to similarweb, 51%:-).
  You are doing great work making sure that people are aware of what choices they have available to them - what they do with that is ofc up to them.:-)

I would be interested in helping with a coordinated effort to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit. Sometimes I check in on /r/RedditAlternatives and it's clear 90% of the people who would be happy with Lemmy have already left for Lemmy. But there are many threads where a simple "maybe check out Lemmy I like it a lot" could do a lot of help. It's not like users need to quit Reddit but every post on a Lemmy instance (even if it's also on Reddit) helps make our instances more appealing.
Perhaps setting up a community here to link to such threads could be a useful idea? And we could get talking points aligned as well.
- !fedigrow@lemm.ee should definitely work, I'll have try to see if there were recent posts and try to link them there
  However, be aware thar most of the mods are going to remove mentions of Reddit alternatives.
  
  I was a mod for over a decade, believe me even if it gets removed, a quickly-upvoted comment will still get tons of attention 😈
  
  mods are going to remove mentions of Reddit alternatives
  Mods or admins?
- Perhaps setting up a community here to link to such threads could be a useful idea?
  Sounds like a great idea! Any reason these couldn't be posted right here in !fedigrow@lemm.ee? I think promoting the fediverse and growing the userbase falls well within the scope of c/fedigrow.
  
  Certainly would fit here but a dedicated space I think would function better for coordinating a specific task.

I wasn’t on Reddit for over a year but from what I’ve heard about /r/redditalternatives is that it’s a shitshow.
If somebody is still on Reddit, direct recruitment over DMs might be better if there’s a candidate who might be interested.
- Are we hazing people on entrance? I didn't get the memo that we're running a cult over here.
  I don't use Reddit, but getting DMs from people telling me to use other platforms sounds like a great way to get me to not try those platforms.
  This thread made me go see what's up with Discuit, though, so... food for thought about social media dynamics.
  
  Sorry, I’m not a native English speaker, but I don’t think that hazing is the correct term here.
  I know were you coming from of course, but I don’t really see the harm telling people who are clearly dissatisfied with reddit about Lemmy.
  Lol, they’re certainly not forced to join it.
- I wasn’t on Reddit for over a year but from what I’ve heard about /r/redditalternatives is that it’s a shitshow.
  It's quite okay to be honest. Not that active, but that's mostly it.
  If somebody is still on Reddit, direct recruitment over DMs might be better if there’s a candidate who might be interested.
  The issue is that to DM you have to know who is actually interested, and you'll miss most of the lurkers. Also, this could be reported as spamming and get you banned.
  
  Ah, thanks for the info and very good point. Good to hear that it’s not that bad.
- I made a comment elsewhere in this thread, but I would be interested in helping out with a recruitment effort! Maybe it's time to set up a Lemmy "get the word out" community?
  
  Yeah, good idea. At least some organised effort would be helpful.
  The other guy was right so, we should only inform and be helpful. Coming off as zealots would be counterproductive.

I just had a look at https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta, the thread there has been deleted too.
Not sure what happened, maybe they were afraid they were getting trolls from the post on Reddit?