To be fair, the encouraging diversification away from American services, even those you don’t directly give money to is still good practice. We don’t want America controlling our communication and culture any more than our economy.
That said, its obviously not an easy process since, as it stands, there isn’t a viable alternative to Reddit for normal users.
Theres a solid foundation, but there just isn’t the userbase. For example, I still have to go to Reddit if I want to discuss Dota, CS2, or War Thunder theorycrafting. These are massive, internationally popular games with compex mechanics and shifting metas that encourgae constant discussion, and yet there is barely a post a month across all three communities combined, nonetheless meaningful discussion. If we can’t even manage a baseline pulse for popular and dedicated niches that appeal to the Fediverse’s nerdy userbase, what could we offer for regular users, looking for smaller niches, nonetheless local topics.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope the Fediverse succeeds. I am still here, and contributing to the best of my ability, but not everyone wants to try and kickstart a new platform in their spare time. For most users, Lemmy will need to grow tenfold before it can even compete with Reddit, nonetheless replace it.
There are many users who are willing to put in the work in supporting new communities if they had seen all the advantages, apps, frontends you have with the threadverse. Many don’t even know that Piefed and Lemmy exists.
To be fair, the encouraging diversification away from American services, even those you don’t directly give money to is still good practice. We don’t want America controlling our communication and culture any more than our economy.
That said, its obviously not an easy process since, as it stands, there isn’t a viable alternative to Reddit for normal users.
I disagree as Lemmy and Piefed are super straightforward and are both getting better with time.
How many users will you impact in these platforms? It looks like users who already moved are already in the movement.
But if you want to impact those who are still unsure, you need to communicate where they are…
I posted the meme on r/buycanadian, so hopefully that encourages more folks to check us out.
So you need a reddit presence. That’s ok.
Thank you for the suggestion, we got a good round of folks signing up ;)
Where did you advertise? This last be interesting for others to replicate the grassroot effort 💪
At the aforementioned r/buycanadian, this act has tripled our daily average recently and it looks Lemmy.zip got a boost too since I mentioned Voyager.
Theres a solid foundation, but there just isn’t the userbase. For example, I still have to go to Reddit if I want to discuss Dota, CS2, or War Thunder theorycrafting. These are massive, internationally popular games with compex mechanics and shifting metas that encourgae constant discussion, and yet there is barely a post a month across all three communities combined, nonetheless meaningful discussion. If we can’t even manage a baseline pulse for popular and dedicated niches that appeal to the Fediverse’s nerdy userbase, what could we offer for regular users, looking for smaller niches, nonetheless local topics.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope the Fediverse succeeds. I am still here, and contributing to the best of my ability, but not everyone wants to try and kickstart a new platform in their spare time. For most users, Lemmy will need to grow tenfold before it can even compete with Reddit, nonetheless replace it.
There are many users who are willing to put in the work in supporting new communities if they had seen all the advantages, apps, frontends you have with the threadverse. Many don’t even know that Piefed and Lemmy exists.
Not where I would start. Stop buying iPhones, cancel Netflix, boycott Amazon. Give the finger to Nike and every USA apparel brands.
Then Go away from Reddit and the likes.
If you can’t communicate about your efforts, you might as well go live in a cave.
But hey! To each their own.
There are more reasons to drop Reddit than the US boycott.
In a sub " buy Canadian" 🤦🏻♂️
Why do people need a reddit alternative? It’s not really important.