when will these subs move to Lemmy? When will the majority of subs be on Lemmy?
I wish all the subs would move to Lemmy. There are a few off the top of my head that SHOULD be pushed to move sooner: /r/SocialEngineering, /r/HowToHack, /r/MartialArts, /r/Photoshop, and /r/meetup should all be here ASAP.
So should other subs, but those ones are particularly awesome and I wanna get them to come here ASAP.
Obviously, there are thousands of subs that need to move to Lemmy but those are some of my favs that I don't think are here yet.
Also, when will MOST subs be on Lemmy?
I'm impatient. I want the new, up and coming, Reddit alternative with privacy to become popular NOW.
At least in my case I haven’t made any because I have 0 interest in moderating them, and by default the creator of a sub is also going to be a moderator
Fair enough. I made 2 communities that didn't exist when I migrated here, really don't want to mod them. I'm sure you could just pass the torch to someone though, it's what I plan on doing if people from the sub move over here.
If there's a community missing that you really want to see, why don't you try to start it yourself? That's what I did on kbin. I'm a big train nerd and missed /r/trains and /r/trainporn, so I started a train magazine to fill that niche. I really have no idea what I'm doing and haven't run a community before, but it's been going pretty good! We're at 80 subscribers, and have started "picking up steam" so to speak.
Chill out, lemmy has had incredible growth the last couple of months, it’s ok if it goes back to much slower growth like before while everything finishes settling. Then, when reddit fucks up again, the site will be smoother, there will be polished apps, and we’ll be ready for another big wave
I really don't think Lemmy is an instant replacement for reddit, nor should we expect it to be. (Even if it was to ever replace reddit it will take years)
Communities need to grow organically here and move people over by the content that gets produced, one shouldn't really expect for entire subreddits to move over, it will always be a few people and from there it grows.
Hell take r/piracy for example which I think is one of the most "successful" migrations, some of the main mods created and instance and the same community here on Lemmy, they also promoted it heavily before leaving r/piracy to those that wanted to stay over at reddit. While the piracy community is pretty good and vibrant, it is not yhe same as it was in reddit both in volume and in content produced. I much prefer what it is here since it's a lot less meme focused but the point I'm trying to make is that even if communities migrate here, the content is different, a lot of users that produced content won't immediately come over and 8t will be its own thing.
At that point just making the community again here organically instead of relying on the og mods to vome over will probably have a similar effect.
From what I've seen around some subs moved and continued its existence, while other didn't become active and in some cases people just snatched names of subs on most active instances expecting probably that people just flock in. Some subs attended the protests and returned to the usual activity but it seems that majority didn't bother. Small number moved to discord or were there already extending community activity.
Fediverse seems to be attractive to people who are both consuming and providing content and who are also engaged in technology to the particular degree. Majority obviously doesn't give a single flying fuck about what happen to reddit by badluckhuffman hands and just waited till blackout will be over.
I... think you might need to accept at least a late-August in order to bring in certain kinds of content. Some interest groups aren't here because the userbase is not yet wide enough to include them, so in order to get a broad range of non-tech content, a slice of "the masses" are going to need to come in. You absolutely can protect your own spaces from people you don't want there, though.
People don't have to be actually tech people now, they just have to be comfortable with the fact that a lot of the people on here are tech people, and a lot of the conversations assume a high level of technical expertise. I'm in that "I don't know what y'all are talking about, but I'm cool with it" crowd, and there are definitely communities where I would probably be okay even if I had a lower tech tolerance. I think we're relatively close to being able to invite non-tech people, though it will mean a bit of a culture shift in communities that are not explicitly tech-focused.