A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

www.reddit.com /r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

I haven't seen Reddit give so much attention to the Fediverse in a long time. Maybe we can help them and answer some questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/

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omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes
I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website
I still see the comment on Spaduf's profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in
- Reddit is scared. Good job getting the screenshot.
- Is 500 upvotes that much on reddit?
  On lemmy its huge, but on reddit i have seen posts with twice that in niche subreddits
  
  For a comment it's a lot yea, especially since the thread was still pretty new. It was the top comment in that thread by a large margin.
- Gotta be. It was right after I made the edit.
  
  actually I think it was mander.xyz for some reason? and it doesn't seem to happen in r/fediverse
  no wait, something else is also doing it, midwest.social is also doing it, lemmy.world is clear, infosec.pub is clear, ttrpg.network is not allowed
  no idea how Reddit or r/technology chose which instances to ban lol
- Oh crap

Reddit took action faster about Lemmy than they did responding to the epidemic of CSAM subs.
- Reddit currently has an active and massive beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images, but they have comment threads with discussion and advice. Just as with r/jailbait, people post fishing for the real stuff.
- I left reddit because they kept resisting the removal of subs that directly used the platform to sell CSAM under the guise of a specific niche of porn which normally is legal. Direct contact with reddit to explain why it was CSAM went nowhere.
  
  Welcome here!
- That sounds right for the company whose CEO was appointed moderator of r/jailbait. This was before you had to accept an invitation to be moderator, but fuck Spez regardless.

I bet the fediverse wouldn't censor a post about reddit because the fediverse isn't a bitch.
- People here censor all kinds of shit they don't like lmao
  
  Mods!! This one, right here. Thanks

Let's fucking go, this is great to see! Remember to be nice to the new users if you see them around.

It made me make an account here. I also convinced the group chat to move to signal last night.
- Same! It was two groups and I didn't actually have to convince anyone. It turned out we all had Signal all along, but were binding eachother to stay on WhatsApp, I dunno, through some weird ass inertia I guess.
- Based
- Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?
  And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to !clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social?
- Welcome, pal!

Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.
I wonder how long till the post gets removed.
Edit: would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?
- would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?
  You can try, but you'll probably get flagged
  
  U would be surprised what u can do with an account list a proxy list and a tor connection.
- Aside from what Blaze mentioned, that's also not really the kind of publicity that we want. Better to just respond to individual users and encourage them to try Lemmy out.
  
  We should really avoid antromorphizing non-humans. Call them bots, like most of them probably are.
- Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.
  Some comments are suspiciously skeptical. If they were this skeptical before joining then they never would've joined Reddit lol. Someone just tried to tell me that the report button on Lemmy doesn't do anything.
  https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/m8i99k6/?context=9
  And people talking about bots too lol Reddit will literally repost a 1 year old post with identical title and copy-paste the top 100 comments from the original too, talk about bots! And they aren't labeled as bots! At least bots here are labeled and you can hide them all instantly.
  And then they ask for extreme details on how everything works and try to become a master at it before even signing up. Is that how they signed up for Reddit and Discord? I doubt it.
  No way these people were that closed-minded and stubborn when they were signing up for Reddit.
- they got me with the propoganda forsure, it seemed complicated was actually super simple, every comment will act like its so hard to swap over or signup when once you do look it up you immediately see why its better at its core

Ah, a worthy reason to dust off the ol account
- Yep! I'm on there right now directing people to Lemmy
  
  Hey, can you go to /r/Cleveland, and convince them all to move to /c/Cleveland?
  And /r/ClevelandGuardians to move to !clevelandguardians@fanaticus.social?
- Just saw your comments there, quite funny

Would if I could but I deleted my account and Reddit has been blocking my connection for months anyway.
- They block cookies comrad.

I would help, but I honestly don't have the password anymore. I don't think I signed up with an email, but if I did it was a dummy one. I wish I could help.
Edit: Also, I didn't know about this bridge for Mastodon:
if you want your Mastodon posts to also show on Bluesky then use this bridge https://fed.brid.gy/ you only need to follow the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy (~~note: is this a typo?~~ It is not a typo. It will follow you back and make sure to accept the follow) and it will automatically bridge you
- the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I've only tried it with Mastodon)
  
  Do you know how I connect Pixelfed to Mastodon too? Or is it automatic and I just do search maybe?

@spaduf@slrpnk.net , could you maybe edit your comment to something like
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
join-lemmy isn't the best for user onboarding: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536?scrollToComments=true
- also what's the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn't like it due to UX/UI issues
  I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you're putting too many choices lol
  
  I like Sharkey
  
  Misskey's probably the most polished feeling, though under the hood it's apparently a total mess.
  
  Honestly I think the answer is BlueSky. For all the problems that people have with it, it's going to be much more successful in getting people off the Nazi platforms. What's more X->BlueSky->Mastodon seems easier than X->Mastodon for most people.

Frankly I don’t want Redditors here
If there’s a single group of people I hate it’s Redditors. Just fuck them (haha zecks, my wife left me smh, I want this guys wife)
In an alternate universe I would be like a ted kaczynski of anti reddit sending hot packages to the authors of most painful comments
- I hope more people with niche interests will come to Lemmy - this is the only use case for this kind of social media for me, and Lemmy's a bit lacking in this regard.
  But yeah, I'm not looking forward to those redditors who assume everyone's a cis man and stuff :\
- Lemmy is mostly people who used to be Redditors. People are people.
  
  That's the truth. For people remembering how large was Lemmy before the API fiasco, the vast majority of people here came from Reddit.
- how did you find Lemmy? did you find out through reddit?
  ive been here over a year now and I sure did. haven't used reddit since.
  if you didn't come here from reddit, I'd be curious to hear where you did come from before making a Lemmy account.
  
  how did you find Lemmy?
  via Mastodon. I still mostly use Mastodon (but I follow hashtags so its a little like an un-curated RSS feed in that respect. I've been on Mastodon for a couple years. I also use a couple other Fediverse projects eg Freindica, Bookwyrm and GotoSocial
  did you find out through reddit?
  no.
- Im sorry to inform you that:
  Lemmy is a reddit alternative
  What you did right now was very redditor esque

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