Subreddits were not a problem before since they were accessible on the web without needing an account. But now reddit is gradually locking them down behind authwalls and things like not letting search engines index (other than Google).

Lemmy communities dont have this problem and because lemmy is federated, its resistant to such enshittification (plus you can easily create your own lemmy instance for only your team). So imo they are a good alternative to forums (and reddit) and a good solution to this problem.

[–] tfm 21 points 1 week ago (32 children)

What can we do to get more people to switch over to Lemmy from Reddit?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some forum software is starting to support activitypub with plugins. If they add the plugin then you can follow and interact with the forum from Lemmy. The best option for everyone is to start pestering forum admins to add those plugins so they get users and Lemmy gets more content.

Long term creating migration scripts for popular forum software like phpBB, so content, users, etc, can be moved to a custom Lemmy instance would be an option.

[–] tfm 2 points 1 week ago

That sounds like an awesome idea! I'm sure that many forum owners don't even know that they can federate.

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