Jotting some quick notes I’ve observed so far from running /m/scifi for a couple of weeks and getting to 3K subscribers:

  • Even though most people will return to Reddit and it’ll be ‘business as usual’ - the seeds of destruction are already in place.
  • No one is coming to a place where there’s nothing to read / think about / interact with
  • The thing that made Reddit great is content - we came there for content. So when it comes to asking ‘how can we grow Kbin?’ the answer is simple: It’s the content, stupid.
  • Reddit has tons of free content - in the spirit of being a #chaoticgood, we can grab the best parts of that content and use it to make Kbin an interesting, thoughtful place to be
  • Creating spaces with well-thought-out rules to encourage inclusivity, collaborate, and mutual respect. It’s working out well for /m/scifi
  • Redditors know what’s up - they’re pissed at Spez but there’s not much they can do about it. They’ll vote with their feet if we give them a new place to come to.

Thoughts?

  • jclinares@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Think of it as the people in Lemmy being Outlook users, and the people on Kbin being Gmail users. They’re just different flavors of the same thing (Reddit-like link aggregators, in this case).

    And, as you already know, as a user of one you can interact with the other, and vice versa.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Even cooler is that mastodon users can interact with lemmy users sort of