Adopt /r/Monero community traditions in the Town (monero.town)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by k4r4b3y@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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If this place going to be a larger Town hall (and eventually supercede the one on the user-hostile reddit servers) we need traditions that foster discussion in here.

Look, I also hate reddit, and it would be better if the Monero subreddit there was stale and inconsequential (see: https://monero.town/post/3725287 ), but the truth is its reverse: the Town is a near-ghost Town; which is a shame! Lemmy has a lot of potential for replacing reddit for long form written, indexed, searchable and structured (all as opposed to irc/matrix discussions) discussion medium. But we need to get people have sticking, lasting reasons to post here.

In order to make posters in here get into the habit, here are my suggestions:

Adopt "skepticism sundays," threads from /r/Monero. The Town should be the place to air out skeptic discussions on monero, we shouldn't need to br put up with reddit's automated filtering of posts and millionth captchas, just to post there.
Adopt "weekly discussion" threads from /r/Monero. Again, the /c/monero should foster posters to post more frequently in here, with threads like this.

We hate reddit. Reddit is simply unusable. New monero community members are unable to get their opinions heard and take part in the convo. It is up to us to have a haalthier discourse environment in the community.

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[-] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

The monero community made the right decisions to stick to Matrix and irc channels for main forms of comms instead of Discord. The last thing is switching over from reddit

[-] k4r4b3y@monero.town 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lemmy has a lot of potential for replacing reddit for long form written, indexed, searchable and structured (all as opposed to irc/matrix discussions) discussion medium.

This is the context of my message. Irc/matrix are different comms medium than reddit/lemmy. So, I do 't see the relevance of your message.

EDIT: Now I understand the context of your message--my bad! Agreed, Monero comminity should free its discourse from the shackles of reddit.

[-] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Haha. It’s ok it happens. As an aside, maybe we can continue the skepticism sunday tradition informally if the mods won’t make it official. I volunteer to post a skepticism sunday post this sunday to start things off

[-] k4r4b3y@monero.town 2 points 3 months ago

Sure. I will be here this Sunday, as well.

[-] blake@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago

i'm skeptical of this plan

[-] k4r4b3y@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago

Why so?

[-] rafael_xmr@monero.town 3 points 3 months ago

And then switching from Matrix to nostr channels and from IRC to SimpleX private messaging

[-] Findmysec@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

Anyone speculate on the reasons why a technically savvy community like this hasn't moved from Reddit?

[-] MalMen@masto.pt 1 points 3 months ago

@Findmysec @k4r4b3y it takes time... I am slowly quiting reddit (to much noise) but mastodon don't have the content I would like to keep following yet

[-] prancing389@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Due to the recent network failure, I've floated the idea of not only abandoning Reddit, but also scrapping Lemmy as the home for Monero.Town. I've suggest Brighteon.io as the new destination for solid reasons.

https://monero.town/post/3682671

[-] k4r4b3y@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago

Brighteon

Wasn't it video sharing site? Since when's it a social media/forum?

[-] g2devi@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, adopt those threads on Monero Town but do not be surprised if it doesn't change the size of the reddit population. People on reddit that have no other interests, might move to Monero Town, but most reddit users started with interests in several reddit forums and monero just happens to be one of them. They won't leave reddit for Monero Town, although they might add to their social media if Monero Town is much better than /r/monero. If you want them to move from reddit, you have to make sure the other groups are also on lemmy. My suggestion is to have a poll on /r/monero asking people which groups do people look at. Once you have that list, then find the comparable lemmy group (if there is any) and then post it on reddit. That resource would open people up to considering life outside of reddit. Without that resource, expect slow change.