Hi all, since I imagine a lot of you are here for the same reasons I am (a dislike of Reddit, prefer open source) how about some thoughts on how we can pull more users over to Lemmy and this linux_gaming community?
I’ve been advertising it where I can but I can only do so much myself in between running GOL directly. There’s also an announcement bar on GOL that mentions Lemmy on rotation (it’s random on refreshes) at the top :) and I Tweet/Mastodon post about it at times too.
What can we do? Any interesting ideas?
We didn’t manage to break 1K by the end of May, so let’s go for the end of June for 1K subs to linux_gaming!
Post often and make sure the posts are useful or interesting. Make this place desirable and people will come
That’s a nice way to think but not the reality with a site such as this, especially when some places (like Facebook) ban sharing Lemmy links.
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I doubt it, but on Reddit links to “reddit alternatives” often get removed.
I doubt it
hmm, I guess because of the .ml domain then.
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I don’t get it, what’s the problem with .ml domain?
Apparently it is a free TLD and thus used by a lot of spammers.
Actually there is a relatively easy workaround for this, I made a post about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/68360
That’s interesting, a little unwieldy though. Buying a new domain would probably be better in the long run to give you more control too.
Unfortunately it is impossible to change the domain of a federated instance, it would break all kinds of things for connected instances.
I will never leave ♥️ give it time, the idea is valid, userbase will eventually see the benefits of fediverse IMHO
Maybe that’s my pessimistic side talking, but I don’t think it’s possible to get a massive drive of people to use Lemmy without tons of marketing. Talking about it to friends and family can surely help, or as you regularly do on GOL and Mastodon/Twitter, thanks for that !
The only way I find websites is if they have usefull or interesting content and get indexed by search engines or linked to in other forums. I usually don’t participate, except for bug reports and patches, so this might not be a good way to get people to join.
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Maybe hosting events and meetups to get members of the community playing together. A few years ago, when Borderlands 2 was first released on Linux, lots of users on the Steam Linux User Group scheduled sessions to play through the whole game together and it was a lot of fun!
Hi, I just subbed this community, hope it will grow the subscribers number over the time! I’m not much into gaming nowadays, let alone on Linux, however I like reading news about gaming. I think more quality content will lure people to subscribe.
