Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
I don't think the average Joe understands the words "decentralized content aggregator." It would scare them away. How about replacing it with layman's terms, like "the better reddit"?
I found voyager (previously wefwef) pretty easily and quickly adopted that while I wait for sync to be released
Here's a fun post asking lemmy users about their technical background. It's quite a varied mix but it seems to trend on the pretty layman end of the spectrum https://lemmy.world/post/1868094
Lemmy gave me my reddit fix when I left when the first blackouts started, using my 3rd party app only every couple days to check protest subs until the app died
I think with development of lemmy apps, and the fact kbin is officially working on an API (https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/p/903221) it will only become more accessible. When I first heard of lemmy, of course I search the play store and there was hardly anything. I've been using voyager for 10 versions and it's improving leaps and bounds. A lot of seasoned reddit devs are working on a lemmy app now and that's nothing but fantastic news. Some even stated future kbin support
To be fair, that post specifically asks people who don't have a technical background. It can be used to show that laymen have the capacity to use a federated platform like lemmy, but not that they are a significant portion of the userbase (albeit that post does have a lot of replies).