Why pretend we never measure value in things other than money? It's obviously a loss to the user experience for those who haven't moved to offer sites, and a loss to the knowledge base that users had built there. I think you know that's what's being discussed here, yet you're only countering from reddit's productive of what would constitute a loss... for some unimaginable reason.
The unimaginable reason is that the OP, which I replied to, claimed they couldn’t replace all mods. My counter point was that they don’t care about replacing them for small communities, because that’s not what makes them money. Hopefully I’ve broadened your imagination.
That’s part of what made reddit interesting tho. Having these niche subs that still had a reasonable amount of activity. If they loose that this is the one thing they had over lemmy for me personally. I’ve never been particularly attached to say r/pics but r/aspiememes was the bees knees. They are coming to lemmy by now.
Yup. But then that another reason for users to leave reddit behind. Which should interest reddit. But it’s been clear for a while they can’t even act in their own best interest.
Publicly traded companies by their very nature have to prefer short term profits. It’s no surprise that Reddit does the same in preparation for going public.
If Reddit think small.communities are worthless then they really dont understand social media. Lots of users belong to big and small communities. I left Reddit because the small communities I engaged with are gone.
I'm not drawn back by the big generic communities - they've lost me from both. Multiple that up everytime a small community has fallen apart with a proportion of its users are gone for good, and you have a real problem.
It's all part of the same enshittification. Reddit is dying through death by a thousand cuts.
They care about people seeing ads. And that’s it. I agree with you that Reddit is dying (very slowly), but there are millions of dollars to be milked before the platform is fully dead. And for everyone like you and me, there are thousands who are there for the generic communities. Most people on Reddit don’t post or comment, those don’t strike me as someone who would enjoy being part of the niche communities.
I see you’re using Lemmy - you can view subscribed (posts on communities you’ve subscribed to), local (posts on communities hosted by your local instance), and all (posts from any federated instances).
How do I add that to my list as I have to keep scrolling and scrolling trying to get to the bottom to follow that channel and given up. Surely there is an easier way of following something
There’s an instance admin community that should be able to help out with technical issues !lemmy_admin
There’s a matrix groupchat with most of the big instance admins as members, but I don’t know a lot about it tbh. Also would recommend letting people know your subreddit is trying lemmy at !reddit , and there’s another specifically for people announcing new communities but sadly can’t recall the name at the moment
I haven’t had a look at your sidebar yet, but add rules for bots and the such as you wish - here the frequently seen ones are autotldr and pipedvideobot. There is also communitylinkfixer but I haven’t seen it in a while.
No idea of the best way to promote it on Reddit, aside from popping a link in your sidebar over there? May be worth checking out the reddit communities for the three major instances that have migrated most of their users from reddit - lemmy.one (PrivacyGuides), programming.dev (Programming), and lemmy.dbzer0.com (Piracy)
Thanks for that info, it very useful. I’ve been wondering about bots, we’d talked about writing one to cross-post the subreddit’s content to the fediverse site.
Certainly something in your sidebar. Then, I know /r/askhistorians doesn't spam their podcast, but the mods are very quick to plug it when relevant, so keep an eye out for opportunities. Finally, just be sensible. Most people who are still on Reddit (I still lurk my niche communities) just want content. If there's a reasonable chance to tell them where else has content, some number will respond. I'd say y'all are fairly well equipped to draw in people if you think the Fediverse is THE FUTURE.
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