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.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm working with a few subreddits and their Lemmy equivalents, and I'd strongly recommend against this approach. As people have said, it sounds spammy and it would make the mods more suspicious of the Fediverse when someone comes along to actually try and work on stuff with them

It's better to have this happen organically, but if you want to plan it out, what I'd recommend is work with one or two subreddit(s) you're familiar with. Also know that you might have to take on the majority of the setup and moderation initially. When reaching out, be specific about the needs of the subreddit and why the Lemmy community might help the community, and be cool with them saying no.

Different ways it might look:

copy in the subreddit rules (when it makes sense) and add mods from the sub, then let them run with it
copy in the rules and have it be an official relationship between the communities where each just recommends the other

There's no script because each time I reached out the situation was different. I can write up more on what's worked well for me but that's the gist of it

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is the way if you want any movement. Start the communities yourself and curate/nurture them. Hand them off to a mod or trusted member that wants to break away from Le Reddit.

[–] SteveCC@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Great offer

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Sounds approach. I tend to do it as well. The more organic and tailored you are, the higher the success chance is.

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s better to have this happen organically

Of course, but organic moves seem to be done at this point.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Agreed, so you're welcome to take initiative! More just don't send a boilerplate message around everywhere :)

I appreciate that you're working on building things up. That's how we make the fediverse better for everyone