However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc .., snuck inbetween of the community posts I'm actually interested in.

How can we convince the people over there to move away?

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Advertise one instance instead of just saying "join lemmy"

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Blaze is doing precisely that - recommending lemm.ee, several initial communities to check out, the Voyager app, etc.

Edit: A major downside to recommending lemm.ee though is that it federates with literally all of the big 3. So someone can walk into e.g. chapotraphouse@hexbear.net without knowing the first thing about what to expect there, followed promptly by leaving Lemmy altogether. Due to lemm.ee's approach of making everything "opt-out" rather than "opt-in" it takes quite a bit of catching up to understand things e.g. what "instances" are and how to block users from them (Pro-Tip: in either base Lemmy or Voyager, you literally cannot do it, though PieFed, Sync, or Connect each offer that capability). It's a bit like having an email account that offers no spam filtering!? Which is fine if that's what people want but doesn't seem geared for "mainstream" Redditors who want to come here "casually".

For those, if PieFed was a bit better developed in its UI it would be perfect. Lemmy.cafe also looks like a great option (Tesseract on dubvee.org too except I think it's only a single admin, and yet quite impressive nonetheless, though toxic people from Reddit would have a terrible & short-lived time there hehe:-P).

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A ban from dubvee is a lemmy participation medal

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard that some people don't like him but nobody will tell me why, as in did he do something intentionally, accidentally, or otherwise? Can you send me something to read? (Always whenever I ask, I get no reply - but I'm interested in learning so that I don't spread misinformation?)

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I and many others never heard of the instance until we got banned from it 🤣

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh wow. Can you send me a screenshot? What I'm getting at: is there any possibility that it could have been unintentional?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 1 day ago

id go a step further and say you need to draw a sub to a specific community. its hard moving users though when reddit actually attempts to prevent it by banning you for trying.

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But wouldn't advertising one instance backfire and lead to huge server loads on that instance?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

That’s not a problem you have to worry about right now, it’s more so not enough people are trying out the platform.

Recommending the instance you’re on Lemm.ee is the way to go.