Lemy Meta

The best thing I could think of to promote Lemmy is promote it places where people are interested in FOSS. Mastodon, 4chan/g/, etc.

As much as I agree, it was reddit going mainstream that brought all the bots and trolls and psyops and marketers and ai scrapers. Lemmy staying a low profile but active minority of social media will keep it truer and less attractive to manipulators in my opinion.

Reddit was great back when the normies were on Facebook, Facebook was great when the Normie's were all scattered across MySpace, digg, tumbler, etc or just plainly not online yet.

Lemmy is great right now, I don't want it to be mainstream, and when it does I'll know to start looking elsewhere or at least to an instance that's defederated from the mainstream network

I made a little slide show commercial for our instance. I upload at the ending of the videos I make. Maybe someone could do something like that an use them as YouTube ads

The problem is most of us dont want to go back. To do it properly you have to use reddit normally and look for opportunities to boost shift things towards Lemmy. But that means using reddit which sucks and defeats the point.