I think fediverse people are wildly overestimating how much 99% of Reddit users care about this. The mod team on r/futurology (I'm one of them) set up a fediverse site just over a month ago (here you go - https://futurology.today/ ) It's been modestly successful so far, but the vast majority of subscribers seem to be coming from elsewhere in the fediverse, not migrants from Reddit.

This is despite the fact we've permanently stickied a post to the top of the sub. r/futurology has over 19 million subscribers, and yet the fediverse is only attracting a tiny trickle of them. I doubt most people on Reddit even know what the word fediverse means.

[–] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

For what it's worth, I was on Reddit for over a decade and I think I clicked on a stickied thread from any subreddit maybe twice in that whole time. I think a lot of people's eyes just automatically skip over them. Plus, stickied threads disappear under some sorting options. Posting the occasional meme about it might be more effective.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

IIRC stickies are also excluded from feed once they get this attribute.

But yeah, we don't even understand what a barrier switching to fediverse sites is for regular joes, jemmas and jermas. Like, for many people the internet is suggested apps' feed and, rarely, their browser's default start page. They don't choose anything, and why would they? And here we are, challenging them to do something on intent while they are pretty happy with what they have now.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and why would they? ........... they are pretty happy with what they have now.

Exactly. Only a very small number of people are motivated as the pioneers who've setup the fediverse now are. Again looking at this through the lens of r/futurology & our fediverse site. Why would a user also want to go to a second version of the exact same thing, but way, way smaller.

My hunch is that long-term the fediverse will prosper. Reddit still isn't too bad even with these changes, at least not compared to what an absolute shithole Twitter has become.

But people who care about making it bigger, should be asking themselves hard questions - this meme comes across as very complacent & out of touch, if many people really believe the sentiments it's expressing.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

The meme doesn't mention the Fediverse at all, it just calls out reddit for sucking (again).

[–] pewnit@lemmings.world 5 points 11 months ago

I literally only switched because of Boost. Also, since Boost for Reddit still works for me, I continue to use that as well

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People who would leave a site like Reddit because of a principled stance often mistakenly believe that the rest of society cares as deeply as they. Spoiler: society mostly doesn't care; at least, not enough to go out of their way to change anything.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of people that are actually too dumb to change platforms and assume apps like Reddit are the actual internet.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

My father had a doctorate of engineering. He was a brilliant man. When I saw him search for Google and then follow the search link to google.com, to then search on their home page, I started to tell him he should search from the address / search field in his browser. He was instantly becoming confused and so I said, "nevermind," because his way got him satisfactory results so why bother. Some people aren't dumb at all. They just don't care about the same things you or I mighty enough to learn them (beyond basics).

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago

I'm technically from elsewhere in the fediverse, but I'm also a Reddit migrant (back in June). Thank you for setting the community up, I've missed it from Reddit days

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Even the head mod of piracy subreddit was ousted from the subreddit for attempting to migrate the sub to a lemmy instance, and the redditors that remain there actually cheered! It's wild, you would expect pirates, who always at risk of having their subreddit shut down, would understand the need to migrate.

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

The quality of content in /r/piracy is shit nowadays when compared to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Those remaining were probably the leechers. Just there to find content but not give back to the community.

So, good riddance?

[–] gila@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Literally swap the word Fediverse in that pinned post for Lemmy and you'll get more engagement with it. Because you're right, even if the current reddit user has heard of lemmy and mastodon, they still most likely don't know what the fediverse is, don't understand the site linked to is a lemmy instance / reddit alternative. Subbed to !futurology@futurology.today btw, if the current activity there can be sustained I think it'll shape up to be a nice community

[–] General_P29@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

I don't even know what fediverse means