Kichae

They don’t. Not anymore, at least, if that was a thing. I’ve been mentioning the Fediverse there for years. Comments generally get reasonably high views, but low engagement because people on established platforms rarely want to do anything to fix their issues.

Those of us still with active Reddit accounts, now might be a good time to gently encourage people on Reddit to check out the Fediverse. Suggest your favourite Fediverse website by URL (don’t just say “Lemmy” or something; we know people trip over themselves to hate on the whole choosing a website thing).

I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea to mention the state of smaller or niche communities, but it feels more honest to me to just say that we could use more people here who are willing to build an alternative, and not just scroll one.

Fediverse severs have a bit of a natural size limit, which means site-level moderation is easier. Admins also aren’t motivated by ad impressions or vanity metrics that impress investors, so there’s that, too.

It doesn’t remove bad actors, of course, and there will be no lack of bad admins, but it’s still more friction than exists on corporate sits.

Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.

It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?