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CTA: Create a thriving Fediverse without relying on Reddit (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Hatchet@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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The Fediverse must be very careful to avoid getting branded as the "alternative to X". In my experience, platforms that have historically branded themselves as "alternative to" or "anti-" have generally not done well. Learned this from the last Reddit exodus: let's make this one different!

How can this time be different?

Join real communities, contribute real content.

Sorry, but low-effort image macros and meta-posting about how much everyone hates Reddit (yes, yes, u/spez sucks, carry on) is not a recipe for a successful platform. It doesn't hurt, but it doesn't really help either.

This time, the exodus appears to have been large enough to start disrupting Google search, at least anecdotally. This is an opportunity for the Fediverse: now is the time to create searchable content, to ask the questions that people are asking search engines, and to engage in real communities.

Here's my call to action:

  1. Find 1 new community on any Lemmy/Kbin/etc. and make a post/article. Not a low-effort post, but something that a search engine would pick up on.
  2. Comment when you've done so, with a link to the post.
  3. Then, go and comment on someone else's post that they've commented.

Let's make the Fediverse succeed!

Here are some options for Kbin communities, but feel free to pick others on other instances as well!

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[–] Smoogy@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They made voat. And this is not the same as that. voat was a response when reddit actually did a good thing and started to remove cp and stormfront subs from Reddit around 5-7 yrs ago. Vault was chock full of pathetic proud boys whining about free speech. It closed 2017 and is but a distant memory

TLDR: op is wrong. Context matters.

[–] lemonflavoured@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'd actually forgotten that Voat existed.

[–] Hatchet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aether and Ruqqus. Descended into extremism pretty quickly.