Let me start by thanking everyone that has joined https://fediverser.network and the ones who are already helping to categorize and create a map between subreddits and the recommended Lemmy alternatives. Y’all are amazing and I hope we can keep it up.
To keep in mind that the main goal of this whole project is to help people on reddit to migrate quickly and effortlessly to Lemmy, I was thinking on what could be done once we have the majority of the niche subreddits mapped out. I thought about the idea of creating “Community Ambassadors”, which would be basically people interested in “turning” other redditors from their specific communities to Lemmy.
Basically that would require you to signup to Fediverser to indicate what community you are focusing on and how many people you are willing to reach out per day. The system could then collect the top posts of that subreddit every day and let you trigger a (custom, personalized) DM to the people telling them about the alternative Lemmy community that exists with a link to alien.top’s portal to make one-click migration.
If we want to get people out of reddit and into the fediverse, we will need to learn how to advertise and market it for the masses. It doesn’t need to mean that we should be taking a “spray and pray” approach, but if we get ~100 ambassadors for subreddits that fall into the “niche community” (less than 500k subscribers) category and each sends 10 messages per day, even a (low) 10% response rate would mean 100 new users every day. We could even find a way to get converted subscribers to become Ambassador themselves, things would compound quickly.
These posters could be “sold” on the idea not of migrating away, but of extending their reach even further.
And it can also burn people.
Someone tried to convince me to lemmy in 2022. And until the Reddit-thing this single message was the whole reason I didn’t even thought about joining lemmy. It was weird to me back then.