By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Reddit protests and blackouts but what exactly is going on with Reddit? Why are people protesting and why did the pro...
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
Telling people they need to quit Reddit is not realistic. People are more likely to respond if we give them easy and realistic advice.
The most realistic course for most people is to join a few alternative communities that match your values. Join a Lemmy instance, join a Mastodon instance, etc.
Sign up for a new community; a Lemmy instance for example.
Take a few minutes to sign into the new community on all your device, you want it to be as easy as possible to start using the new community.
Prefer to use the new community whenever possible. When you’re bored and going through the usual websites (you know what they are), visit the new community first, move Reddit to the bottom of the list. Avoid using Reddit, but don’t stress too much if you end up there occasionally, just give preference to everything else.
This advice is not too intimidating, anyone can act on it, and even if only a few people act on it, it’s still effective for those few people. This plan has everything it needs to be effective and spread.
You’re right that telling people to quit Reddit could come off as hostile.
Beehaw seems to be easy on sign up from my experience, so it’s here when July 1st rolls around when Reddit terminates API for third party apps. I think significant amount of users of Reddit use the app regularly, so they might leave Reddit once the app no longer works and I imagine that some of them would be unaware of the ‘old’ reddit UI so they would likely get a really negative impression of the current ‘new’ Reddit Ui that they would likely be deterred from using Reddit going forward.
I think one of the most effective is answering posts people need help on while sourcing something that a user from the fediverse contributed. It’s not aggressive. It’s not a pitch. It’s just there so people might visit it and get curious.
Like nobody likes door to door sales people. Or cold calls. And that’s what the current approach is coming off to for people who don’t want and aren’t asking for alternatives. People who’ve felt strongly enough about leaving reddit already have. Those left don’t care.
Telling people they need to quit Reddit is not realistic. People are more likely to respond if we give them easy and realistic advice.
The most realistic course for most people is to join a few alternative communities that match your values. Join a Lemmy instance, join a Mastodon instance, etc.
This advice is not too intimidating, anyone can act on it, and even if only a few people act on it, it’s still effective for those few people. This plan has everything it needs to be effective and spread.
You’re right that telling people to quit Reddit could come off as hostile.
Beehaw seems to be easy on sign up from my experience, so it’s here when July 1st rolls around when Reddit terminates API for third party apps. I think significant amount of users of Reddit use the app regularly, so they might leave Reddit once the app no longer works and I imagine that some of them would be unaware of the ‘old’ reddit UI so they would likely get a really negative impression of the current ‘new’ Reddit Ui that they would likely be deterred from using Reddit going forward.
+1 on your advice!
I think one of the most effective is answering posts people need help on while sourcing something that a user from the fediverse contributed. It’s not aggressive. It’s not a pitch. It’s just there so people might visit it and get curious.
Like nobody likes door to door sales people. Or cold calls. And that’s what the current approach is coming off to for people who don’t want and aren’t asking for alternatives. People who’ve felt strongly enough about leaving reddit already have. Those left don’t care.