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yes, that is where the lion's share of people are. on places like reddit and twitter. most people aren't on random web forums or mastadon instances. if you are

yes, that is where the lion's share of people are. on places like reddit and twitter. most people aren't on random web forums or mastadon instances. if you are trying to grow your reach, expand your community, and have presence outside of a niche group of people who already know you exist, you need to have presence in the place where people are. you obviously can have web forums and matrix channels and other such things as well, but you will stagnate if that is all you have.

Shish2k 3y ago
> that is where the lion's share of people are. on places like reddit and twitter Facebook dwarfs reddit and twitter combined - Does that make Facebook the #1 place to host an open source community?
michaelmrose 3y ago
Lets talk about several groups and how choice of social media might influence "reach" Prospective users: Virtually no chance of encountering the jellyfin subreddit without subscribing or subscribe without already using MIGHT encounter mention of jellyfin on other tech focused subreddit. Random satisfied users: Unlikely to interact on average with anything. Users with problems motivated enough to seek support. Unlikely to be put off by the fact that the forum isn't reddit. If you have already installed and set up the software you already have enough investment that taking 30 seconds to create an account on reddit OR a forum. Potential developers: more interested it where the source is hosted than reddit. Most of your users are on Facebook and twitter but both are toxic and uniquely unsuitable for fostering a tech community. Reddit with an anemic 1/40th the market of Facebook provides at best a moderately adequate forum alternative but has little to recommend it especially when recently they - Killed the API and with it every good mobile experience available at a time frame when better than half of users are apt to interact via mobile - Are pushing a shitty desktop experience that you can only temporarily opt out of - Hired an employee who kept her dad on in her political campaign after he was arrested for raping and torturing a child in the same house that they both lived in as adults. We are asked to believe that she was unaware of her dad bringing home kids to rape while she was an adult living in the house. - Upended communities by awarding moderator-ship to random bob users of the channel when channels wouldn't implement the policies they desired - Have misused internal access to data to silently edit a users post out of spite - Have regularly used their position to silence dissent or discussion they didn't like I mean it IS their sandbox and they can run it as they like but why would anyone depend on Reddit for their community at this point in time?
Teever 3y ago
Jellyfin will be around longer than you'll care about them moving from Reddit to their own personal forums.
- rez9x 3y ago
  I wish everyone would go to platform-specific or interest-based forums. I think the Internet was a better place when you just banned the occasional crazy from your forums, whereas mass social media seems to promote their craziness and create an echo chamber of negative reinforcement for them.
p_j_w 3y ago
Crying about other people not putting the community for something they created on your preferred site is a bad look. You should reconsider what you're doing right now.

Shish2k 3y ago

> that is where the lion's share of people are. on places like reddit and twitter Facebook dwarfs reddit and twitter combined - Does that make Facebook the #1 place to host an open source community?

michaelmrose 3y ago

Lets talk about several groups and how choice of social media might influence "reach" Prospective users: Virtually no chance of encountering the jellyfin subreddit without subscribing or subscribe without already using MIGHT encounter mention of jellyfin on other tech focused subreddit. Random satisfied users: Unlikely to interact on average with anything. Users with problems motivated enough to seek support. Unlikely to be put off by the fact that the forum isn't reddit. If you have already installed and set up the software you already have enough investment that taking 30 seconds to create an account on reddit OR a forum. Potential developers: more interested it where the source is hosted than reddit. Most of your users are on Facebook and twitter but both are toxic and uniquely unsuitable for fostering a tech community. Reddit with an anemic 1/40th the market of Facebook provides at best a moderately adequate forum alternative but has little to recommend it especially when recently they - Killed the API and with it every good mobile experience available at a time frame when better than half of users are apt to interact via mobile - Are pushing a shitty desktop experience that you can only temporarily opt out of - Hired an employee who kept her dad on in her political campaign after he was arrested for raping and torturing a child in the same house that they both lived in as adults. We are asked to believe that she was unaware of her dad bringing home kids to rape while she was an adult living in the house. - Upended communities by awarding moderator-ship to random bob users of the channel when channels wouldn't implement the policies they desired - Have misused internal access to data to silently edit a users post out of spite - Have regularly used their position to silence dissent or discussion they didn't like I mean it IS their sandbox and they can run it as they like but why would anyone depend on Reddit for their community at this point in time?

Teever 3y ago

Jellyfin will be around longer than you'll care about them moving from Reddit to their own personal forums.

rez9x 3y ago
I wish everyone would go to platform-specific or interest-based forums. I think the Internet was a better place when you just banned the occasional crazy from your forums, whereas mass social media seems to promote their craziness and create an echo chamber of negative reinforcement for them.

p_j_w 3y ago

Crying about other people not putting the community for something they created on your preferred site is a bad look. You should reconsider what you're doing right now.