Let me start by thanking everyone that has joined https://fediverser.network and the ones who are already helping to categorize and create a map between subreddits and the recommended Lemmy alternatives. Y’all are amazing and I hope we can keep it up.

To keep in mind that the main goal of this whole project is to help people on reddit to migrate quickly and effortlessly to Lemmy, I was thinking on what could be done once we have the majority of the niche subreddits mapped out. I thought about the idea of creating “Community Ambassadors”, which would be basically people interested in “turning” other redditors from their specific communities to Lemmy.

Basically that would require you to signup to Fediverser to indicate what community you are focusing on and how many people you are willing to reach out per day. The system could then collect the top posts of that subreddit every day and let you trigger a (custom, personalized) DM to the people telling them about the alternative Lemmy community that exists with a link to alien.top’s portal to make one-click migration.

  • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    if you don’t have any presence in that community (…) the success rate is going to be very slow.

    Yes, 100% agree. It is key that the people that are “Ambassadors” have an actual connection with the reddit community. Otherwise this just becomes some random spammer writing to people.

    It could be all at once in a burst like with the reddit-bs, but it could just be slowly with cool people trickling in every once in awhile

    What worries me is that since September, we are getting nothing but a constant flow of users trickling out of here and back into reddit. The long tail of niche communities is really long and the network effects are just too strong to ignore. If Twitter manages to survive because people think they can not leave, imagine with Reddit that does not get as fraction of the hate that Elon does.