Subreddits were not a problem before since they were accessible on the web without needing an account. But now reddit is gradually locking them down behind authwalls and things like not letting search engines index (other than Google).

Lemmy communities dont have this problem and because lemmy is federated, its resistant to such enshittification (plus you can easily create your own lemmy instance for only your team). So imo they are a good alternative to forums (and reddit) and a good solution to this problem.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What can we do to get more people to switch over to Lemmy from Reddit?

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess once more and more content is posted here, naturally more people will come. And also any further steps of reddit enthitiffication will move people over.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we actively do something to help this process?

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

The main thing is post more. Lack of content is the main reason people don't use Lemmy more, and the only way to fix this is to share/produce more.

Its a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think even (transparent, community-relevant) bots are a good idea at this point, given that 99% of interests have little to no activity currently. For example, if we had bots that post game update changelogs to their relevant communities, it would at least provide a baseline amount of content and make it easier to discuss for fans of those games.