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.
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.
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.