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Advertising Lemmy on r/place (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534

It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.

Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm game. This'll be fun lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This will open us to an inter site raid. Are we really ready to repel am attack from reddit users /bots?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Most people on Reddit can't wrap their heads around how Lemmy works.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of people are thinking short term when it comes to Reddits traffic IMO. Sure, temporarily we would boost Reddits traffic but long term would probably hurt them. By this time next year, I'm sure Lemmy would have much higher contributing numbers than now, and next r/place will either A) not happen or B) happen with embarrassingly low participation. We could have c/place here instead.

I agree that helping Reddits traffic by participating doesn't seem like a good idea, but I also don't think that ignoring Reddit will make the *problem go away either. So I support the cause, but as I used to use RIF, I will not be participating, but more luck to you.

*one could argue there is no problem as Reddit is a separate entity to Lemmy. But I, like the rest of the community, support having more people switch here so we have more content. Honestly, I don't care about Reddit as long as Lemmy can provide the content we used to see over there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Love this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dammit. I will install their app just for this. And also help any fuck spez too. But I am sure they will have bots to avoid that. We need bots to make this work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hear me out:

old android phones generate google accounts very fast! We use github codespaces or THC's segfault to organize this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or a lot of ThrowRAs... either way should work.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The community got deleted. I guess it's dead then?? Sad; I would have really liked that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, but do you know why the original one got deleted?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am waiting until I have time to address it appropriately. Suffice it to say there is a mod on lemmy.world who will be hearing from me soon enough. I saw how everything went down and it was not cool.

The real action is happening on the Matrix chat anyway. Matrix is the fediverse version of Discord.

We've just gotten wiped for the second time. This time it was Belgium. The first was Italy. But we are gearing up for a third attempt tomorrow when the canvas expands

That was close to our furthest extent before Belgium exterminated everything 🫠

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awe rip :(
Good luck though

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