Recently we’ve seen a spike in PieFed users, a lot of this came form raising awareness of PieFed’s existence on Reddit.
Here’s some info you’d need if you want to help raise awareness of PieFed on reddit.
Reddit uses AI to make a summary of a users behavior that it shows to mods, and will flag people who seem spammy eg.
Steps to make a successful reddit post:
- Don’t have a sus account
- Make it a image post with a nice catching image (Most important)
- Don’t include any links away from reddit in the post, don’t even add it to the comments (have others do that)
Sucesfull posts examples:
- https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1711535/post-with-5k-views-in-1h-promoting-the-fediverse
- https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1727090/post-promoting-the-fedrivers-on-r-degoogle-on-globalswitchday
- https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow/p/1720677/post-mentioning-piefed-ca-in-r-buycanadian
These 3 posts got ~500,000 views between them
- Don’t go and spam reddit with low effort content. It can do more harm than good.
- Don’t post to the same sub more than once a month
- Don’t post links in the comments of your own post unless it’s already gone viral, instead let others post links or let people figure it out for themselves.
I’ve tried to promote Lemmy in the past, but Immediately I get comments of people complaining about the UI, UX and tankies which kills all momentum. I’ve had much better success with PieFed so sticking to that going forward.
It seems that I have left in time to not catch an AI summary about myself. XD
It seems that I have left in time to not catch an AI summary about myself. XD
Don’t be too excited. That’s been done on here at Lemmy too. I think it was called santabot (on slrpnk instance I think), and it would ban/unban you from some guys community purely based on your upvote/downvote ratio even if you had never heard of his community, without any other input. The mod log was filled with “xxxx banned. xxxx unbanned. xxx banned, etc.”
It was controversial, and some called him out on it, but others thought he was doing awesome with it. He mentioned that he was almost done working out the kinks in it and would be offering it to other mods to use.
He’s no longer around now, but I was surprised the admins let him keep using that bot the entire time he was here.
Well, there is a difference between having a situation, where some comunities do use automation tools to ban/unban and where the whole platform uses them.
Sure, but this was a little more than an automod, because it was based on what you did outside of the community, and banned you based on how many downvotes you got from other people.
So let’s say you got 1 upvote for your comment yesterday. Then 2 downvotes today. That unrelated comm, would ban you even if you had never been there,. had never posted in the comm, or even heard of the comm.
Well, then this automation tool was a piece of crap software poorly designed to mimic Reddit’s karma system.
Agreed. And like I mentioned earlier, I was a little troubled by how many were ok with it. Luckily I didn’t see it used anywhere else, and haven’t seen it since the guy left.
Sometimes I wonder if they haven’t moved over by now, do we really want them? The users I see at Reddit these days are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
The might not be the brightest tools in the shed, but we also don’t want the fediverse to be just filled with a bunch of rocket surgeons, we want people from all over creating their own communities etc.
I’m not a fan of gatekeeping decentralized alternatives because people aren’t “smart” enough. I don’t think people don’t switch because they are stupid, but instead because PieFed doesn’t yet offer what they need in a replacement.
I don’t know, I’m not sure that people who find Reddit in it’s current form to still be a useful/enjoyable experience are people I want to share a community with.
There are different parts to Reddit. The largest subs that appear on r/all (or rather pop) are one thing, the small niche subs are another, the interactions with Reddit admins one aspect, the less controversial subjects another, and so on.
The Threadiverse is the same - like if you post the “wrong” thing in a tankie space then you will be brigaded with users following and downvoting you across many communities - they even brag about creating accounts specifically for this purpose, to get around bans (bc “no” means you need to keep pushing, consent be damned!!)
But even if the maximum experience here can be much worse than on Reddit, the average interaction is far kinder and nicer, imho.
they even brag about creating accounts specifically for this purpose
Yep! I’ve seen it happen me, which is why I created a new identity for myself, so I could get away from those guys.
