Recently we've seen a spike in PieFed users, a lot of this came form raising awareness of PieFed's existence on Reddit.

Here's some info you'd need if you want to help raise awareness of PieFed on reddit.

Reddit uses AI to make a summary of a users behavior that it shows to mods, and will flag people who seem spammy eg.
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Steps to make a successful reddit post:

  1. Don’t have a sus account
  2. Make it a image post with a nice catching image (Most important)
  3. Don’t include any links away from reddit in the post, don’t even add it to the comments (have others do that)

Sucesfull posts examples:

  1. https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1711535/post-with-5k-views-in-1h-promoting-the-fediverse
  2. https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1727090/post-promoting-the-fedrivers-on-r-degoogle-on-globalswitchday
  3. https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow/p/1720677/post-mentioning-piefed-ca-in-r-buycanadian

These 3 posts got ~500,000 views between them

  • Don't go and spam reddit with low effort content. It can do more harm than good.
  • Don't post to the same sub more than once a month
  • Don't post links in the comments of your own post unless it's already gone viral, instead let others post links or let people figure it out for themselves.

I've tried to promote Lemmy in the past, but Immediately I get comments of people complaining about the UI, UX and tankies which kills all momentum. I've had much better success with PieFed so sticking to that going forward.

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[–] 53 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Well done on gaining that much traction. Its pretty hard to get people to actually leave site and look at the alternatives. Also that AI summary is so depressing, reddit is really going to boil and entire person down to a sentence.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Here are some more examples, it's quite interesting

    image image image image

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh boy, I did not know reddit had gotten that bad.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    they have been aggressively upping thier AI/detection og botters and spammers recently. basically people were using anti-detect browsers and mobile proxies on different mobile phones to evade reddits detection temporarily to use hordes of accounts at once. reddit however is going to lowest hanging fruit, it barely makes a dent in the propaganda bots, but target the ones that drives businesses to thier own website.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wow, the atmosphere really is much more negative on Reddit these days, huh. Lots of "Ew no one uses that, don't bother."

    Still—sounds like starter packs for Lemmy/Piefed would be useful. Is anyone working on those?

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    look I like bumping the fediverse as much as the next person but not enough to make an image post for textual content

    I have some ethical standards

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's a hyperbole. It's not unethical. But many people don't like it/hate it.

    1. An image is just more expensive than text. Text is usually ~1 byte per character. An uncompressed image is ~3bytes per pixel. Of course, most images are compressed, and compression does a lot of heavy lifting. But still. Also, you don't need to uncompress plain text. More amount of bytes means more storage expense, more network expense, and worse user experience due to latency.
    2. We have plenty of tools that work for text. You can copy-paste it. You can easily edit it with just a keyboard. It is easily configurable via fonts and font sizes.
    3. Accessibility: text can be read by screen readers. Images (without alt text) cannot. Maybe there are some fancy screen readers that OCR images, but then it's the case of point 1.
    4. Text is easily indexable. Which means that it's searchable. If the reddit search tool were any good, it could find the post. Not for images. Alternatively, 3rd party search tools such as google and DDG work.

    There's probably many more points.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The post will get ZERO traction if it's not a image post, I've tried.

    Did you read what my post was about?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    To be clear, Ek is talking about posting image posts on Reddit who allow video uploads. I don't think this is a problem there. Moreover, the infographics are more successful at getting attention than just plain-text comment-posts. It is what it is.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Sometimes I wonder if they haven't moved over by now, do we really want them? The users I see at Reddit these days are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

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  • [–] [S] 38 points 5 months ago* (19 children)

    The might not be the brightest tools in the shed, but we also don't want the fediverse to be just filled with a bunch of rocket surgeons, we want people from all over creating their own communities etc.

    I'm not a fan of gatekeeping decentralized alternatives because people aren't "smart" enough. I don't think people don't switch because they are stupid, but instead because PieFed doesn't yet offer what they need in a replacement.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Be careful what you wish for: Reddit admins turned VOAT into a right-wing cesspool overnight by banning a few repungent subreddits. They all jumped ship for VOAT, and polluted the community. Of course, this was probably all planned to get rid of an upstart competitor.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I heard about voat back in the day and thought "Oh, cool, like reddit without some of the overbearing crap from the admins".

    Then I went to voat and read a few posts.

    Well, shit. I didn't want to be on a nazi site. So much for that.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Are there any equivalent quarantine subs that would have a similar effect on the threadiverse? Right-wing people in particular seem to be convinced it is not what they are looking for, fortunately, judging from comments I saw when I browsed r/RedditAlternatives.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Reddit hasn’t been an open place for intelligent discussion in ages, it’s slop to draw in the morons plus propaganda to control their ideology. No one with a brain takes a redditor seriously… So yeah, the remaining people/fleshbots can stay there.

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    Keep on fighting the good fight. 💪

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Nice info but I have given up on Reddit.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Evangelising the Fediverse on Reddit is not for me, but respect to anyone who does try that (I save my evangelising for my irl folk. I'm wearing them down)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    It seems that I have left in time to not catch an AI summary about myself. XD

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    seems the same strategy on a forum i been to about evading reddit bans(for people who wants to steer traffic to thier online business). these are one of the tools that likely they originally keeping secret from mods, of how one of thier detection methods go, but its likely the botting has gotten more intense because they banned more irl users, making them flee to using bots/spam accounts.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    May someone enlighten me on differences between europe.pub and piefed.europe.pub?

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