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Please, help us to better understand how we can effectively funnel reddit users into Lemmy across all demographics, leveraging the average Lemmings advantages like expertise in automation, ai and bots?

What tactics/strategies do you propose? Can we automate the process? Can we somehow add ai to make it more fashionable?

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Create content and participate to make Lemmy more attractive.

[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Best I can do is talk about Linux.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish 😭

It refuses to install... I got a dell vostro 3468 running on legacy BIOS. I'm coming from windows and there's an NTFS partition full of data I'm trying to preserve...

The guided partitioning errors out(usually runs out of space, and no packages can continue installing so they throw errors), and using the expert partitioning throws a couple of grub errors at the end when it's installing grub

It was really good when I last tried it on another device

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can start out with something light, and then install packages as you go.

I generally do a barebones install and then install individual packages. By default a lot of packages are installed - most of them you don't need.

And also checkout geckolinux . It is a lighter version of Opensuse and has the calmares installer. (Tumbleweed is the Gecko rolling version)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The MBR layout was the issue

When I wiped the drive, everything fixed itself!

Loving tumbleweed so far

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The archetypical answer should be obvious

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All my homies use Hannah Montana Linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real OGs peer beyond the *nix veil and graduate to TempleOS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Baby's first OS. The actual OGs graduate back to SLS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Slackware, forever Slackware.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Je peux peut-Γͺtre aider en suggΓ©rant une deuxiΓ¨me choix ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Un petite peu.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So more OpenSuSE, gotcha.

[–] Nath 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's that Windows program the nerds use, yeah? Do you like it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's a program? Is that a kind of app?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thing you use to access the facebooks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That works for me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then do that. There are many Linux communities on Lemmy, participate in them and try to make them a better place by contributing useful comments and posts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

He's making a joke, because if you look at /all communities it can be like half posts from various Linux communities at times

[–] Aussiemandeus 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never have anything interesting to say

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think you just disproved your own point my friend, that was fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you think what all these idiots are saying is interesting?

just yap its more enjoyable that way

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.

Seriously, I'm not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a *hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That's compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.

My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that's a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it's probably going to dry up.

Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were 'all filled up' already.