Hi all,
I’m a Reddit refugee and I’m wondering if we could consider mirroring subs like r/Transgender_Surgeries, r/TransDIY and r/estrogel here (or if not maybe another instance)
If you’re not aware Reddit has made it clear they will probably deploy tools to shut these subreddits down in the nearish future. This has lead us to start looking elsewhere and personally I’m in favour of getting people into the fediverse.
It seems obvious to me the main issue we have with getting people onto the fediverse is momentum. In light of that do you think that we could mirror some of the content from those subs here? Maybe also if we have a bot like this one to seed the content https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21662525
I for one would be happy to start encouraging people to move here by regularly posting my responses to people’s questions on here with info I know on Lemmy and then linking to my response in the subreddit so they take a peek.
I’ve been researching surgeries for well over half a decade by now and have some surgeries myself so I think people will come if people like me start putting valuable content here.
My issue here is I’m new to the fediverse and probably not the best to take something like this up. I also am working on learning how to set up my own server for the first time and ultimately help others in my network around the world do the same so idk if I’m the best to lead that type of initiative.
It does seem we need someone though and the leader of the Transgender_Surgeries subreddit is too burned out to migrate it (understandably so)
Maybe if this instance feels comfortable hosting those communities, it would be useful to talk to those communities' Reddit moderators directly see if they are interested in treating Lemmy as a fallback community in the case of being banned, the way 196 did when they were banned from Reddit?
To my mind that would be even more valuable than just cross-posting Reddit content to Lemmy.
Do you know who I would even talk to in order to find out if this instance is comfortable hosting them? In the long run I am working on setting up my own server but that won’t help if the sub is banned tomorrow for example
I would certainly try to talk to the admins, particularly @Ada, who will probably see your post here at some point.
Thank you for tagging her for me! If she doesn’t see it I’ll reach out to her soon ❤️
IIRC she's on vacation at the moment (I had a technical request for her recently)
Gotcha no worries thanks for the heads up
Probably tag @ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone
remove the space between the “@“ if you’d like to tag her
Thank you! 😊
thank you, I always forget how to properly tag someone on Lemmy, lol