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.
Not growth necessarily. Just a non-negligible step up from the former sub(s) in terms of influence. We used to feed content downstream to other subs like r/LateStageCapitalism. Outside of reddit, we don’t have some useful things to bolster our impact like crossposting or a shared login to the rest of the site. Getting regular folks to stumble across our content is going to be much harder here, especially now while we’re in our nacency.
I’m less concerned about our numbers and more concerned about the posting vacuum created in the absence of r/chapotraphouse and the likes. The current state of lefty reddit is garbage, and us being outside of the rest of the reddisphere means chuds could have an even greater grip on public perception than they do now. If we don’t have a plan to either get users to migrate here or export culture to reddit, we will only lose what little influence we had.
Honestly, I think a simple reddit bot that posts our top image content with our URL watermarked to the appropriate subreddits would go a long way.
