Moving to the fediverse
Hi guys, are you familiar with the fediverse? It’s an open-source reddit-alternative that is owned and run by no one. So it doesn’t suffer from the threat of a single hostile entity making drastic, unwanted changes, as we recently saw with reddit, resulting in the side-wide protests.
It would be great to have your subreddit join the fediverse! If you do, I would suggest not using lemmy.world, as it’s already the largest instance and it’s better to spread things out so no one has too much control.
Info:
- https://fedi.tips/
- https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-the-fediverse-and-can-it-decentralize-the-web/
- Graphic: How federation works https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14ier24/for_anyone_wondering_how_lemmy_works_and_is/
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities - explorer
- Awesome Lemmy Instances has a list where you can see how many instances block/are blocked by each other https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances. This can help you pick an instance to create your community on.
- https://join-lemmy.org/instances - Click on an instance, and look at the right sidebar. It will list local rules of the instance. You can also browse the “local” feed to see what kind of communities live on that specific server.
You can even create your own instance like /r/futurology and /r/piracy did https://futurology.today, https://lemmy.dbzer0.com. If you do, you may want to seed your community with content https://futurology.today/post/166237.
Once you make a community on Lemmy you could sticky a post in your sub to let your community know, and/or create an automod sticky in each thread.
I was thinking about the idea of adding “community ambassadors” to https://fediverser.network. The plan would be for people already on fediverse to tell which subreddits they miss the most, and then help them promote the Lemmy alternative by, e.g, listing which reddit users are the most active and send a customizable message showing them how to migrate. I haven’t done it yet because I’d like to have other instances besides alien.top to share the influx of potential users.