I've been thinking of this for a long time, but have there been any serious attempts on getting the subreddits of your ethnic group / country on switching to lemmy?

Feels pretty lonely on lemmy, since there are only 6 (including me, and afaik) arabs/1 other person from my country. And i'm guessing it can feel barren for some in the same way.

Would it be a good idea to go on subreddits like r/denmark, r/estonia, r/arabs, r/kurdistan (for kurds), etc and promote lemmy? What do you think would be the response? What communities would we do? Is it a good idea?

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Brigading an arbitrary subreddit and saying "you should use Lemmy instead", even with the best intentions, will likely yield a poor response. A more successful strategy would be to monitor these subreddits, wait for someone to complain about Reddit, and then suggest Lemmy as an alternative.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thankfully a lot of redditors are complaining about reddit now. Every month or so those types of communities seem to get a post complaining about it, so i guess that's the chance to strike lol.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Gotta strike when the iron is hot!