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:

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.

  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
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    9 months ago

    honestly, I don’t want established Reddit supermods land grabbing topics in the Fediverse. The right people will find it organically based on their own motivation (as simple as searching for “reddit alternatives”).

    Especially don’t want the shallow, low-quality content from default/“top” subreddits.

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      9 months ago

      I think there’s less risk of name grabbing with so many instances, and the admins understand the issue and will likely step in if there’s a problem. It happened a few times during the migration and it got fixed after

    • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I blocked all the meme subs on lemmy. I’m not interested in inviting those. I plan to invite some niche subs that I’ve followed/known about for years that haven’t moved over yet.