I feel that Discord-like platforms can be useful sometimes, especially if you want to have a conversation in real-time.
I run a sissy Discord that’s intended for more intellectual discussions, and I’d be happy to link it to /c/sissy to drive activity. However, I also totally understand if it would be better to create a whole new server, or (better yet) use an open-source alternative to Discord. After all, decentralization is important no matter what platform you’re using!
What do you sissies think~?
Addendum: I think a Matrix/Element room would be best, but in the interim I’ve set up an IRC channel, #sissy_discussion on Rizon. Below is a link to a web client, everyone is welcome to join!
https://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.rizon.net&channel=%23sissy_discussion
Should have responded to this earlier, sorry.
My hunch is that you’ll primarily want to look outside of Lemmy for new subscribers, since Lemmy only has so many members and it’s possible those who would be interested in sissy topics are already subscribed.
That said, maintaining engagement from those already subscribed will be key to keeping this community active.
I’m planning on doing another large-scale Sissy Survey. I’m doing it with Google Forms, which I’d avoid if I could but I don’t know any decent alternatives.
That could work!
I might be wrong though, but isn’t Reddit auto-removing posts that mention Lemmy? Or is that a different site?
This could be good!
One way of building up this community would be to establish it as a higher-quality version of the communities on Reddit. People will flock to places that can offer more effective training methods.
It would be really sad indeed if there’s no decent survey alternative to the anti-privacy company’s offering you mentioned. I think you’re right about reddit censoring lemmy links. My idea was that the lemmy links would be in the survey linked to on reddit and thus outside of reddit’s censorship reach
Is there a way that you’ve found to link it on Reddit without activating the automatic filters?
Apologies for my lack of clarity. My idea is that users of r/sissyology will click on a link to take them to [survey URL], and the webpage of [survey URL] will mention https://lemmynsfw.com/c/sissy - which some respondents may proceed to. I can’t imagine that the reddit auto-censors could beat this, but you’d know better than me (Edit: the survey isn’t even key to the approach, the key piece is a 3rd-party website that you can add content to that isn’t blacklisted by reddit)
Oh no worries, I got that idea! I was just wondering if there was any way to link it natively on Reddit without having to do so through the survey
I’m not a web dev, but here are my ideas! To link it, you might be able to use an on-demand URL shortening site, like tinyurl. You could also tell people what the relatively simple link is in a cryptic way that an interested human would be able to figure it out, but the regular expressions (or whatever reddit uses) wouldn’t. If you venture into promoting a reddit alternative on their site, however, you probably take on risk of them finding out and deleting your account. So, I wouldn’t use your regular Sissy Sophia account if I were you, and I’d probably take other privacy steps, like VPN
Thanks for mentioning this, as it definitely could be a concern. I do like your idea of using intermediaries though.
By the way - and I know this is out of left field - I’m trying to bring together a roundtable group of moderators and content creators to work on some things for the sissy community, such as an accepted defintion of what a “sissy” is, a symbol and pride flag for sissies, and other projects. Would you be interested?
I’m flattered and yes, I’d definitely be interested in learning more at least ☺️