It's no secret that Lemmy is shaping up to be a viable alternative to Reddit. The issue it faces however is that it's still relatively niche and not many people know about it. I propose that we change this. By contacting the mods of large subreddits and asking them to make and promote relevant Lemmy communities we could substantially increase the amount of people who discover the fediverse. What's more, I don't think this is would be a hard sell considering many mods are already pissed off with Reddit due to their API changes. I believe that this is the time to act, so this is a call to arms, to help grow the fediverse into the future of social media!

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    Have a look at this post, we had a similar discussion there: https://lemmy.world/post/3074361

    Long story short, the platform still needs a bit of work before being able to really move communities. Some examples exist (lemdro.id, piracy, startrek) but those are tech savvy audiences, there would be a lot more friction with more generalist communities

    • ToadCultist@mander.xyz
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      I do agree, however I would argue that an increased user base would help accelerate progress on improving lemmy

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 months ago

        To be honest, people who are tech savvy and bug tolerant enough to be on Lemmy are probably already here. There were quite a few discussions about it (and still now on Reddit)