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Advertising Lemmy on r/place (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534

It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.

Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.

!place_join_lemmy@lemmy.world

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[-] 520@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

I'm game. This'll be fun lol

[-] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Love this

[-] Blackspider1111@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A lot of people are thinking short term when it comes to Reddits traffic IMO. Sure, temporarily we would boost Reddits traffic but long term would probably hurt them. By this time next year, I'm sure Lemmy would have much higher contributing numbers than now, and next r/place will either A) not happen or B) happen with embarrassingly low participation. We could have c/place here instead.

I agree that helping Reddits traffic by participating doesn't seem like a good idea, but I also don't think that ignoring Reddit will make the *problem go away either. So I support the cause, but as I used to use RIF, I will not be participating, but more luck to you.

*one could argue there is no problem as Reddit is a separate entity to Lemmy. But I, like the rest of the community, support having more people switch here so we have more content. Honestly, I don't care about Reddit as long as Lemmy can provide the content we used to see over there.

[-] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Dammit. I will install their app just for this. And also help any fuck spez too. But I am sure they will have bots to avoid that. We need bots to make this work.