• Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    I wasn’t on Reddit for over a year but from what I’ve heard about /r/redditalternatives is that it’s a shitshow.

    If somebody is still on Reddit, direct recruitment over DMs might be better if there’s a candidate who might be interested.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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      4 days ago

      I wasn’t on Reddit for over a year but from what I’ve heard about /r/redditalternatives is that it’s a shitshow.

      It’s quite okay to be honest. Not that active, but that’s mostly it.

      If somebody is still on Reddit, direct recruitment over DMs might be better if there’s a candidate who might be interested.

      The issue is that to DM you have to know who is actually interested, and you’ll miss most of the lurkers. Also, this could be reported as spamming and get you banned.

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      3 days ago

      I made a comment elsewhere in this thread, but I would be interested in helping out with a recruitment effort! Maybe it’s time to set up a Lemmy “get the word out” community?

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        3 days ago

        Yeah, good idea. At least some organised effort would be helpful.

        The other guy was right so, we should only inform and be helpful. Coming off as zealots would be counterproductive.

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          3 days ago

          Yes absolutely, it depends on the context. The overall goal of such a community I think should just be to “put it out there”, and have people on reddit at least casually aware that Lemmy exists the same way people on Twitter are (now) aware of BlueSky and Mastodon.