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Lets talk about several groups and how choice of social media might influence "reach" Prospective users: Virtually no chance of encountering the jellyfin subre
by 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?