"A doctor must go where the sick people are"

I admit that i sometimes use Reddit because it has a larger user base. I know I should use PieFed (or Fediverse in general) more.

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I'm rather curious on how you're doing your outreach.

I think the most I have gotten is 50 people signing up at one time. Usually it's 1-4 at a time.

You know I'm one of the rarer people pushed here because essentially all the communities are taken on Reddit. Every name for every possible community is captured. The Lemmyverse offers way more opportunity for community building.

You can feel free to send 50 people our way any time you want.

Yeah, I do like that you can just pick another instance to create your community. Like, yeah, it has disadvantages, too, in that new users may need to sign up to multiple communities, but it makes communities a lot less 'serious'. You don't need to agree with the moderators of every community, because you can choose or create a different one.

I do also like that you can choose to only subscribe to e.g. one out of three communities for an interest of yours, in case you don't want the firehose of all posts ever shared about the interest.

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Hell yeah!

What communities do you usually reach out to, and what would you say?

1-4 good people is much better than hundreds of bots/bad actors/ect...

I have had the most success with r/buycanadian, r/linux and r/redditalternatives.

Pie not subreddits.

How do you promote it without Reddit banning you? I just assumed they would ban anyone that was poaching users.

It's mostly moderators who remove the mentions of alternatives as I have been promoting the threadverse for months.

If we can get all the artists and writers here that would be amazing!

For all the reasons I’ve heard, that’s the first time I’ve heard this one. Makes sense though.

Once the people come, the bots will follow.

To be clear, it's not my only reason - but it's the largest one.