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It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It also needs about 1000% less hostility when it comes to anything beyond superficial discussion. Basically every news thread just gets brigaded by idiots trolling with pictures of pig shit. I get it, internet is not serious business, but in terms of actual discourse at the moment, this place is worse than Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, my experience is very opposite this. It sounds like you're describing reddit to me honestly. I've seen way less hostility here compared with Reddit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It depends on what content you consume I guess. On Reddit, news subs generally enforce decorum pretty strongly which really eliminates outright trolling. On lemmy there is the opposite of this in many places - lemmygrad and hexbear openly state that it is their goal to shit up threads to deny "shit libs" a platform, and the mods on several major instances seem to openly allow it.

So if you never consume that kind of content on either platform, you'd never notice the relative toxicity of lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's why instances need to defederate and block lemmygrad and hexbear, to discourage that behavior.
This is neither here nor there, but the only thing I hate with a burning passion more than right wingers is the tankie filth that pervades those instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, do you any links to them admitting that? I believe you, but it's a good idea to have that saved.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I say this as someone who hates tankies just as much as the next dude, but that community isn't really productive nor helpful. If you seriously have an issue with lemmygrad there are many instances that have defederated from them (i think sh.itjust.works is?). A community like that does nothing but to bring drama within the lemmyverse. Yes, their views are at times abhorrent but you are just provoking a community that already has major issue with large portions of the lemmyverse. We really should leave that toxic drama stirring behind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't you just say "it's a good idea to have this stuff saved"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see that either. People have disagreed with me politely and intelligently here which is just good conversation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've run into this here. I posted a question to one of the posts asking why it was such a big deal, and all the sudden I'm a corporate defender. I don't think this is a reddit, lemmy, or anything issue, it's just internet and echo chambers. If you don't reply with a "OMG YES SO TRUE OMG" then you are a dissident.