Hello,

I’ve been thinking of this for a long time, but have there been any serious attempts on getting the subreddits of your ethnic group / country on switching to lemmy?

Feels pretty lonely on lemmy, since there are only 6 (including me, and afaik) arabs/1 other person from my country. And i’m guessing it can feel barren for some in the same way.

Would it be a good idea to go on subreddits like r/denmark, r/estonia, r/arabs, r/kurdistan (for kurds), etc and promote lemmy? What do you think would be the response? What communities would we do? Is it a good idea?

  • Camus (il, lui)@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I’ve been trying to get the mods from /r/France to have a single pinned post pointing people looking for a French speaking alternative to Jlai.lu, similar to what the Germans did: https://old.reddit.com/r/ich_iel/comments/14d65o7/öffentliche_dienstmeldung_änderung_der/ since the 2023 API fiasco.

    I got temporarily banned for “self promotion”.

    To this day, they will still remove comments mentioning Jlailu or Lemmy, see !quitterreddit@jlai.lu

    Reddit mods pretended to want a better alternative during the 2023 strikes, but most of them just seem to prefer keeping people there

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Heh, that’s how reddit is, i guess. I sent a couple of messages to mods on my old account before, it got permanently deleted ;^)

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    Brigading an arbitrary subreddit and saying “you should use Lemmy instead”, even with the best intentions, will likely yield a poor response. A more successful strategy would be to monitor these subreddits, wait for someone to complain about Reddit, and then suggest Lemmy as an alternative.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      Thankfully a lot of redditors are complaining about reddit now. Every month or so those types of communities seem to get a post complaining about it, so i guess that’s the chance to strike lol.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    What do you think would be the response?

    If I was invited to change my habits, my first question would be: why? What could I do I can’t already do on reddit? Or for what reasons would I want to do the same thing on that Lemmy-thing? Imho, you should prepare some reasons for them to be willing to change their habits and give Lemmy a try. Without that, you’re seriously reducing your chances.

    Pessimistic-me would also think focusing on ethnicity/country or anything along those lines would immediately open the door to endless issues and quarrels between users considering one must be living in the country, other saying one should be of such or such origin or whatever else, while others say it should be enough to have been born there, or to to have been living there at one time. But, hey, that’s just pessimistic-me.

    What communities would we do?

    That’s up to you, obviously. I wouldn’t do any because I don’t care much about ethnic/origin/nationality (or gender or faith) and I can’t recall any time I felt closer (or further away) to anyone because of such reasons. I care a more about what’s brewing between that person’s ears and depending what’s brewing, I will feel closer or not so close to them ;)

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      If I was invited to change my habits, my first question would be: why? What could I do I can’t already do on reddit? Or for what reasons would I want to do the same thing on that Lemmy-thing?

      (Going to talk about arabs here, for example.) Since most arabs on reddit complain about how all pro-palestine content is heavily censored and how it’s consistently enshittifying. But i mean this might be diminishing returns, but at the same time i find it insane that there are only 6 (afaik) arabs meanwhile there are whole instances for french/german/chilean/italian/etc

      Pessimistic-me would also think focusing on ethnicity/country or anything along those lines would immediately open the door to endless issues and quarrels between users considering one must be living in the country, other saying one should be of such or such origin or whatever else, while others say it should be enough to have been born there

      I don’t think a rule banning people outside that country / not that ethnicity is very fair. I think it would be enough for it to be focused around that topic, but prefer that users also come from that place for example.

      That’s up to you, obviously

      Not meant to boss people around with that, this is more of a general idea :p (Though i only really have one community in mind.)

      I wouldn’t do any because I don’t care much about ethnic/origin/nationality (or gender or faith) and I can’t recall any time I felt closer (or further away) to anyone because of such reasons. I care a more about what’s brewing between that person’s ears and depending what’s brewing, I will feel closer or not so close to them ;)

      I [think] i get along okay with everyone else, but i do miss having other arabs to talk to on lemmy. This isn’t too big of a problem, but would be nice to solve :-)

      • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        (Going to talk about arabs here, for example.) Since most arabs on reddit complain about how all pro-palestine content is heavily censored and how it’s consistently enshittifying. But i mean this might be diminishing returns, but at the same time i find it insane that there are only 6 (afaik) arabs meanwhile there are whole instances for french/german/chilean/italian/etc

        Maybe all what’s needed is for someone to start?

        I [think] i get along okay with everyone else,

        I certainly don’t, but I’m old(ish) and grumpy :p

        i do miss having other arabs to talk to on lemmy. This isn’t too big of a problem, but would be nice to solve :-)

        I would not blame you for trying ;)