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!

  • @JerkyChew
    32•11 months ago

    I’ve been a reddit user for at least 15 years. I’ve been a Lemmy user for a few months. Lemmy has a long way to go before it’s a “viable Reddit alternative”. Right now it’s barely usable.

      • @Krachsterben@feddit.de
        32•11 months ago

        Any topics outside of memes, IT and politics are nearly non-existent.

        This place is heavily skewed towards a specific niche of mostly males that are chronically online

        • loiakdsf
          5•11 months ago

          Isn‘t the approach from OP tackling exactly that problem? Or do you think it will be too much for switchers to set up a community here?

          • @Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
            2•11 months ago

            They could tackle that problem exactly by creating an instance that reposts whatever gets posted to reddit subs. Asking reddit mods to help is just pathetic and won’t work.

            • @Deftdrummer@lemmy.world
              1•11 months ago

              Sure bub, “every single” website… surely you’re talking about leftist media that covers for the president left and right, refuses to take hardball questions - your ilk are encouragable. Always accusing others of what you yourselves are guilty of. It was your party who supported slavery, and your party who breached the California capitol in the 60s with firearms. It was your party that shot up the congressional baseball game.

              Always censoring what you can’t stand to hear … you are the minority but cry the loudest. Red wave.

              • @Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
                2•11 months ago

                Yeah because trump is going to solve those problems, man GTFO the republican and conservatives are a complete joke, as flawed as the democrats are and as amazing as presidents lincoln roosevelt and eisenhower were, the republicans of today are literally just a joke clown army for putin.

                • @Deftdrummer@lemmy.world
                  1•11 months ago

                  Your beliefs in the scheme of things mean nothing really. Everyone around you thinking the exact same mindless zombie thoughts does not constitute a majority, even if in your head.

                  I know most of your inspirations likely do spring from your own head, just like whatever undoubted mental health issues you’ve got going on.

        • prole
          2•11 months ago

          Unless I’m mistaken, highlighting new comments was a reddit gold feature, not RES.

      • @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
        1•11 months ago

        You cannot block an instance, there are no multireddits, Sync is still in beta, the main instance is down half of the time, searching for contents is difficult, the discovery of new content is drowned among duplicates of existing communities.

        I’m a heavy Lemmy poster, but all of these points should be addressed for Lemmy to become mainstream