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We could certainly keep trying to improve accessibility from a technical standpoint, like trying to make it easier for new accounts to hit the ground running. Basically, focusing on good defaults. I've heard people emphasize things like suggestions and starter packs based on simple interest questions for instance. UX is often heavily influenced by what apps you're using for access however.
To be honest though, when I hear this kind of question, I always end up thinking "quality over quantity". I feel like we need to remind ourselves that bigger doesn't always mean better, particularly online. Particularly when the question is about attracting Redditors. Reddit is a cesspool, and cesspools often attract and breed noxious organisms.
The point is, it might be best to keep focus on raising awareness and promoting what the Fediverse is to those who might be receptive rather than trying to contort ourselves to suit the wants of those to whom the Fediverse's appeal is lost. Do our best to be more accessible from a technical standpoint. Then just put out the welcome, open the door, let those masses yearning to break free come, let the rest be.
An exception to this argument is the objective of furthering the cause of federation itself more broadly, but this is a different concern and a completely different discussion.
It's funny you say that. When I first read the post I interpreted more as "We're about to get a bunch of unruly Redditors. How are we going to deal with the increased workload on moderators."
I mean... that sounds to me like an entirely valid question ⁉️ - how WOULD we handle such?
Aside from trying to recruit more mods, I have no idea. I think a big influx of Redditors is going to reduce discussion quality here no matter what we can do, and we have very limited resources to spend on damage control.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can come up with something.
PieFed already provides a HUGE aid to help here, and while Lemmy currently lacks this I believe that a future version is imminent that will help in this regard as well. I am talking about federating mod reports across instances, which will allow mods to remain on their home instance without having to continually check an alt account(s) on the same instance that houses the community. This will increase the pool of available mods for any specific community.
reddits arnt coming here, unless SPEZ/reddit decides to a massive purge wave again, which they wont now. because they realize they lost too much irl users to thier AI slop, and now bots/spammers are taking over reddit. they went with more subtle background shadowbans.
Kindof a tangent there, buckaroo.
Biggest problem for Lemmy and similar applications is scalability and controls and detection for bots.
The compute costs to operate instances are astronomical compared to the actual user load they receive.
That's a bit of a side problem compared to bots though. Bots are a real problem that services like this are not equipped to handle.
PieFed is 25-fold more efficient in its data transfer than Lemmy, fwiw (source: that's 5-fold less data transferred, despite it being for 5-fold more posts, hence 25-fold more efficiency)