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DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks agoWe have quite some spillover from Reddit to our lemmy (Lather Games, AA, Theme Thursdays) – and if I remember well, someone complained about this […]
You remember very well. It was me who complained about this 😅
The problem is, in my personal and honest opinion, that random visitors from other federated instances will be simply dumbfounded by reading something like “totally on theme today” in a SOTD post on Thursday. Which theme? Unless you know that it’s something from Reddit, you’ll simply be perplexed. Hell, even I am confused since I don’t look at Reddit anymore since I’ve deleted my account. Personally I don’t believe we will have much turnover from old members of the subreddit - most aren’t really keen on the idea of a new platform. There was already controversy when, god forbid, someone opened a Discord server for the sub instead of relying on the old internet chat giant ICQ.
I totally agree about periodical events that don’t clash with the Reddit sub. Maybe we could try Wednesday or Friday, Saturday?
The only titles I can come up with are atrocious though 🤷🏻♂️
“Lemmy do it for you” 😂
There was also the discussion that we need more unique and informative standalone posts - like articles, reviews, essays, etc.
But I honestly don’t have the time, commitment and energy atm to produce something worthwhile here. But for a single themed day I could definitely get my shit together and participate regularly even with a busy life currently.
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
I’m sorry: I thought I would have remembered if it was you 😅
There were indeed a few who were strongly opposed, and we will never get those, but there were also a few who initially posted here, but found it too boring with too little interaction during the time before we got our new management (yay @walden@sub.wetshaving.social 🎆 🎆 🎆). @whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social came back, but most never did – but I believe that some can be reached.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social!
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
I think/hope no one forgets DJ, as he’s the “founding father” of this instance. You’re still doing a very great job in managing this instance though!
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
that would be @merikus@sub.wetshaving.social, I setup and run the Mastodon over on wetshaving.social.
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
(Apologies for the late reply, internet connection over here is unstable.)
Hey, no need to be sorry! I don’t mind, just wanted to confirm that I had this minor complaint 😉
I see now. Unfortunately I didn’t get around to sign up here for a long time since tbh signing up on a federated instance is a bit more complicated than usual logins on centralised networks. Walden definitely does a terrific job in managing our instance over here. Whosgotthepudding is definitely good to see around here too, especially since they are a regular SOTD poster with great photos! I wouldn’t mind having some folks from Reddit over here, but judging by the fact that a few where always strongly opposed to new platforms and the strong negative reaction towards migrating the sub I didn’t have much hope tbh. If some folks can still be reached it’d be really cool.