2w ago

Throwing ideas out for lemmy

I guess this is a me trying to figure out how to grow lemmy or fediverse in general. Just getting frustrated and want to do something constructive and put idea out and have idea come in.

In me head I head this line of "will you after engagement grows will you improve a project or will you improve a project to encourage engage" to me the answer settled on keep doing what you can to improve project and kinda hope it increases engagement.

For lemmy it seems as though the technical side is solid it's just building lemmy communities. Right now I'm thinking of building a Florida c/ but it would come off as a hard endeavor because idk what I'd do with it. Would I post random new stories in Florida would it be politics. Plus I've been told that posting links "clutters the Internet" and people would get confused as to where to find original links. Then there's getting people to a Florida c/, do I just go into discords and tell people about a fledging group

I do want geographical based c/ since they are more personal to people and would increase engagement on lemmy but that small steps that need to be worked out.

I do wonder if it would be worth it do sneak content from reddit to relevant c/. I know they do it for NSFW subreddits, but it might be worth it for hyper specific subreddits just to have that content to engage with, but that could be viewed as an IP infringement

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Lemmy is literally a link aggregator. You link to stuff and then it can be discussed.
If you wanna create c/florida, go for it. Post news, politics, humor, facts, questions etc. related to Florida.
If you need inspiration, you can always look at that other place subreddit 😉

I guess my biggest question is why you have a desire to start a community for Florida in general if there are a few for general Florida content and a lot for cities, sports teams, etc. already.

I'd recommend finding a community for Florida that you feel most at home with and post related content there.
- Of course my slow instance glitches when I looked up Florida. Ugg.
  Florida was more on my mind to use as a concrete example. I do have a county and city level c/ that I created months ago that I can do start doing something with.
  But i could do a c/cdda and just gather post from reddit

Places like Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin and Friendica, the "threadiverse", from my understanding are slower to grow, as their community system is meant for specific niches.
Places for microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) and for videos (Peertube, Loops) should be steadier to grow, the former for being more engagement oriented, and the latter as most popular video platforms end up being discount-Youtube or TikTok, or even those two themselves, and specially for Youtube, it seems every few months there's a blunder there that could incentivize migration.
Also the amount of options to join in can be rather off-putting. Even if the person is hellbent on joining some server, if he/she stops to check the rules of each potential server instead of picking the biggest one, he/she's in for a long read.
And about sharing Reddit content, a tip, Old Reddit has open RSS for communities and profiles and you could see if the Lemmit or Ibbit administrators would be willing to track more feeds on their instances.
- I'm say loops is fedi-washed like a reactionary. There's no other instances, apparently it dies use the activityhub protocol.
  I will comment that the major corporate sites like reddit and YouTube make hard for fediverse platforms to take off because they're hard to complete with. When they started out they didn't have competition people would get bored and come to them, then they would build niche communities on their own.
  There hasn't been a blunder for most of 2025. Id count the tik Tok ban generally being the last one to capitalize on (but I believe that loops project just didn't bother to act).
  I'll have to research that last paragraph
  
  I'm say loops is fedi-washed like a reactionary. There's no other instances, apparently it dies use the activityhub protocol.
  Loops is very new. Completely normal for a new service to have one main instance by the devs, you need an instance to test your stuff with real users. The server was open sourced in September and is now at beta6. There are in fact 8 loops servers in operation. This isn't "fedi-washed". It's just very new. Give it some time and please be nice to people who build stuff for the fediverse in their free time. We need them.
  
  Also an idea that requires more patience, share posts from here to your contacts elsewhere. That's specially practical if it's some image post (like memes) and the platform has good link preview display.
  Also also, not ideal and much more of a slow process, but if someone from your contacts is on Threads or Bluesky, respectively suggest to him/her to activate ActivityPub integration, and suggest to follow Fedi Bridgy. Both would be microblogging-oriented, but there should be some degree of propagation from threaded posts over to microblogging platforms.
  Also³, as I suggested in a separated comment, integration between ActivityPub-compatible platforms varies depending on each engine involved, so in Lemmy for example, if something is seen as a channel, maybe people could seek to follow and interact with it too?
- Okay I figured out what old Reddit is and it's rss features. Yeah I can see how that would be a way to reduce load of getting content
- By the by, Peertube channels are treated as communities on the threadiverse, and iirc Wordpress blogs too (though I'd need to confirm that one), so maybe people could subscribe to such communities through their threadiverse accounts to help with engagement?

You'll be the first moderator in a Florida community. Good Luck.

When Myspace, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Digg, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok etc. became popular it was because the young crowd 15-25 year olds made it that way.
You want the Fediverse to grow? You'll need young people to do it.
- Aren't they all gambling addicts now? Now I'm not gonna condemn someone using an owncast or peertube stream of a gambling stream.
  
  I don't know about the gambling but I do know they are struggling in many aspects of life ex. Education/financial
  It's possible the next few generations will see the failures of the previous generations and learn from them.
  Which will hopefully lead them to spaces that give them back their agency like the Fediverse.

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