We’re going to need to participate on normie platforms like reddit in order to get more users & content here. We’re also going to want to have a place on reddit (and elsewhere) where some of our content can thrive and become more accessible.
Apparently, Facebook is already marking our URL as spam. I’d imagine reddit will follow if not already. So we can’t just dump links onto every marginally left-wing space.
Let this be a thread to spitball some ideas.
I’d definitely say user growth is less important than influence and extending the reach of the content here. Both are somewhat inextricably linked.
The community here is already fairly substantial. Users seem pretty active judging from the volume of responses to this post alone. I’d rather have a smaller, tighter-knit community fostering quality discussion than a bigger community where the discussion is lackluster.
Influence I see as a much more important goal…part of which comes from having enough users to produce content to reach a variety of people.
Having a subreddit would probably siphon some users if it were the same exact community & content, but we need somewhere to make inroads to normies if we want to accomplish anything besides shitposting amongst ourselves. I think it would be beneficial to have a reddit chapo embassy where people point users to the greater community here.
I would have never ended up here if someone didn’t post a link to reddit. Same goes for lemmygrad.
I’d like to believe that some of us aren’t just extremely online and do work on the ground. It would probably be best if the activist/organizer types moved way from Twitter/Reddit and other corporate-owned platforms to find and share info here where fash & chuds are less likely to be. Idk who controls this lemmy instance & the rest of the tech stack, but I’d imagine they’re less willing to hand info over to authorities as well.
